The WA list is interesting. I didn't know that Dukakis had picked up those rural counties. Clark and Whatcom can easily be explained, though (the former due to suburban/exurban growth, the latter due to Nader).
Dukakis actually overperformed in rural areas because farmers got hit pretty hard economically during the Reagan presidency. It's why he won Iowa and West Virginia and did much better in Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, and Montana, than his overall national performance.
You're right about the farm vote except in WV which has almost no large scale agriculture because it's all mountains.
Lots of tobacco actually.
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https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=WEST%20VIRGINIAWV ranks 47 out of 50 states in value of crops and 40 out of 50 in livestock. The biggest category by far is poultry and eggs which account for about half of all ag value. They rank 17th out of 19 tobacco states and the value is withheld so as to not disclose data for individual operations.
Coal miners hated Reagan because they lost tons of jobs. WV lost 150,000 people in the 80s.
