Where are people getting this bizarro take that West Virginia was Republican until the New Deal?
WV voted straight D for president 1876-1892, 5 elections in a row during the gilded age. While it then did vote Republican most of the time, that's because Republicans won almost every presidential election until the New Deal! WV voted more D than the national average in almost every election between the Gilded Age and FDR.
It's true it wasn't *as* Democratic as it became subsequently but calling it a Republican state isn't accurate. More like a Dem-leaning swing state.
Lol no look at that red block that literally ends exactly at 1932.
