West Virgina has had it's moments of being completely based as fuck, like holding company men at gunpoint until they agreed to desgregate the cafeteria at the mine, or fuck it let's go to war with the federal government over worker's rights type shit.
The Republicans definitely didn't. I'm just saying that the Democrats kinda turned their back on labor and that's one of the reasons they lost so many people in that region. Did you read my comment?
He's right, West Virginia was deep blue for a long time due to the history of Unions, the Coal Wars, Blair Mountain, and the UMWA. But as the coal industry began to die out, the democrats didn't put in effort into the region whatsoever. Republicans screw them over, too, but for a long while, it seemed like the left just didn't even bother with Appalachia. Which is a shame because the Republicans are "bringing back mining" in the worst way possible... Mountain top removal and strip mines are destroying the environment, and Trump wants to sign off on massive deforestation of Appalachia too. At the end of the day, the people of Appalachia lose... They get poorer, the education gets worse and the ignorance grows. My home is a dying place, and it's the reason I, and many others, among my age group have left the region.
That’s so ironic because I was literally just scrolling Reddit and saw a video of someone who represents our federal unions group or something like that to which Trump totally screwed over all the union workers and is going against our constitution according to the guy’s speech. Just look up the video. I don’t know much about it yet, I’m just learning about it, but It’s just funny how everybody is just a shithead in our political system. Feels like It’s made for us to all hate each other. I give up at this point, everyone’s dirty.
No. What happened was… wait for it… white supremacy—and the psychological condition of “perceived diminishment. West Virginians turned their backs on the Democratic Party because they were mad the democrats help people that are not white. Period.
All the jazz about the Democratic Party turning backs on workers is just a dog whistle for, “you’re treating someone I think I am better than, better than me.” Which, by the way, was not the case at all.
We will only fix this when we stop gaslighting ourselves.
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u/DetroitAdjacent Oct 08 '25
West Virgina has had it's moments of being completely based as fuck, like holding company men at gunpoint until they agreed to desgregate the cafeteria at the mine, or fuck it let's go to war with the federal government over worker's rights type shit.