West Virginia: A blue state’s road to red - A frustrated and angry West Virginia has been cutting ties with its reliably Democratic roots

From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s era until the 2000 election, West Virginia was among the most reliably Democratic states, one of only six that Jimmy Carter carried in 1980, and 10 that Michael S. Dukakis won in 1988.

But no more.  See article in the The Washington Post.