25% of Dems back Huckabee over Clinton in 2016, in this poll. I wonder what that number would be in, say, West Virginia (or Arkansas?).
A lot of those "dems" in the South identify and are registered as Democrats, but haven't voted for Democratic candidates for decades due to the years of Democratic dominance for the region.
Yes, of course I know that. That was my point exactly, that there are many "Democrats" in places like Louisiana who'd vote for Huckabee in a GE over Clinton, and I'm imagining that it's even higher somewhere like WV.
Louisiana and West Virginia probably have pretty similar Voter ID by registration. However, Clinton is going to play a lot better in WV than Obama for pretty obvious reasons. Clinton + Edwards got 74% of the vote in the 2008 WV primary when Obama was already the presumptive nominee.
Kind of gives you an idea of what West Virginians thought of Barry.