Opinion of these online comments about West Virginia

[IceSpear]

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Sounds like a great place! Freedom state!

[Anna Komnene]

Are you going around provoking random West Virginians  on the internet now? o.o

Though really, ...friendly? - non-hateful racism is probably one of the most condescending ideas I've ever heard in my whole life.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Get over it.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Get over it.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Get over it.

This, but I must admit there is a grain of truth there. Coming from a West Virginia family, I can definitely say that there is a racist tinge among my older relatives. All of them, however, are "ethno-pluralists" more than they are actual supremacists. Basically, they are fine with black people in the sense that they are equally human in their eyes (and thus entitled to the same rights), but they sure as hell don't want them next store because they still can't get beyond archaic stereotypes and feel that the necessary reforms of the Civil Rights era were directed more to punish them (muh way of life) then to advance civil rights.

There also is a large Klan presence in the southern part of the state from what I've heard. My great-aunts still talk about all the trouble they use to cause well into the late 50s. Nothing serious (no lynchings or anything like that), but by the early 1960s they were just as much as a problem in their eyes as the "agitators" (they still use that term to describe the Civil Rights activists).

Of course, this thread isn't about addressing the issues of racism and hatred in WV but rather to bash coal miners for voting in their economic interests. If West Virginia was such a racist and misogynistic state, why did they vote for a socialist Jew over the woman who won the state in a landslide last time? That seems like an odd choice to make over an otherwise popular pretend southern white woman? Especially in a state where both the Republican and Democratic Senate primaries were won by women in 2014, and where Helen Holt was the Secretary of State of West Virginia at a time when many families (including mine) literally were just getting electricity in their homes for the first time.

Are you going around provoking random West Virginians  on the internet now? o.o

Though really, ...friendly? - non-hateful racism is probably one of the most condescending ideas I've ever heard in my whole life.

It's a real thing, though. Certainly not "friendly" but none the less, all of my older West Virginia relatives know well enough to hide their otherwise obvious racism.

Here's a fun fact: the most racist member of my family is my grandmother's brother-in-law, a former KKK member and an unrepentant neo-Nazi who can't decide if the Holocaust was either the greatest project in history or a lie made up by the "anti-Christ Jews" was born and raised in the lovely state of Pennsylvania.

[Intell]

Please Stop, everyone knows your intentions in this, and they're pretty vile.

[This account no longer in use.]

Well, would you look at what time it is!

[they don't love you like i love you]

Dude give it a rest. You care far more about West Virginia than any of its "defenders"

[White Trash]

Well, would you look at what time it is!

[Mike Thick]

Well, would you look at what time it is!

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Well, would you look at what time it is!

[RFayette]

Get over it.

This, but I have to ask:  considering you live in Pennsylvania, I'd imagine you've been there yourself at least a few times and (presumably) did not like it there.  Isn't that the real reason you hate WV (plus its recent electoral shifts), not some dumb Internet comments?

[Xing]

This is getting a bit old. I'm not one to defend West Virginia, but it's starting to get to TNV NH levels of obsession.

[DINGO Joe]

Just take comfort in the fact that old West Virginia (outside of the East Panhandle and Morgantown) continues to lose population and have been losing population for about 70 years now.

[SATW]

you are officially in TNVolunteer territory.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

This is probably the worst thread I've read so far this month.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

you are officially in TNVolunteer territory.

[Mr. Smith]

you are officially in TNVolunteer territory.

Oh, that's a low blow at IndyRep if I ever saw one.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

If only WV went for Hillary, IceSpear would be saying it's the great state.

[IceSpear]

Figures you guys would make this about me, rather than comments about the state from people who actually live there, NOT RANDOMS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY OR ACROSS THE OCEAN WHO NEVER STEPPED FOOT IN THE STATE.

Please Stop, everyone knows your intentions in this, and they're pretty vile.

Huh? I genuinely have no idea what you're referring to here.

Dude give it a rest.

The world shall never run out of iron again.

stuff

Thank you for more insight on the state from someone who has actually been there, which will be promptly ignored by the fetishists (oops, looks like it already has been!)

They voted against Hillary because she worked for the black guy.

As for Pennsylvania, yeah, the WV-esque part of the state is almost as terrible as the real thing. That's certainly not news to me.

This, but I have to ask:  considering you live in Pennsylvania, I'd imagine you've been there yourself at least a few times and (presumably) did not like it there.  Isn't that the real reason you hate WV (plus its recent electoral shifts), not some dumb Internet comments?

Of course I've been there. It's DISGUSTING!

Just take comfort in the fact that old West Virginia (outside of the East Panhandle and Morgantown) continues to lose population and have been losing population for about 70 years now.

Indeed. It is a wonderful trend.

If only WV went for Hillary, IceSpear would be saying it's the great state.

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=54&year=2008&f=0&off=0&elect=1

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

If only WV went for Hillary, IceSpear would be saying it's the great state.

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=54&year=2008&f=0&off=0&elect=1

I'm pretty sure we all remember that.

[IceSpear]

If only WV went for Hillary, IceSpear would be saying it's the great state.

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=54&year=2008&f=0&off=0&elect=1

I'm pretty sure we all remember that.

Well I already disliked the state long before she even announced her candidacy, much less lost the state. And I also started prodding at the forum's WV fetish long before she lost the state. So your hypothesis is void.

I never felt positively about WV, I've been there quite a few times and many areas of the state are like dystopian wastelands. I started to dislike it even more when they showed their true colors by nearly supporting a felon/prison inmate over a the incumbent black president. Since then my opinion of them has only gotten lower and lower. The undeserved love it gets from the forum, especially the "progressives", is particularly offensive.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

If only WV went for Hillary, IceSpear would be saying it's the great state.

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=54&year=2008&f=0&off=0&elect=1

I'm pretty sure we all remember that.

Well I already disliked the state long before she even announced her candidacy, much less lost the state. And I also started prodding at the forum's WV fetish long before she lost the state. So your hypothesis is void.

I never felt positively about WV, I've been there quite a few times and many areas of the state are like dystopian wastelands. I started to dislike it even more when they showed their true colors by nearly supporting a felon/prison inmate over a the incumbent black president. Since then my opinion of them has only gotten lower and lower. The undeserved love it gets from the forum, especially the "progressives", is particularly offensive.

I have no "love" for West Viginia, but you are beating this thing to death for months now. I mean, come on, we already know where you stand and we don't need to be reminded of this with XXX new threads.

[Figueira]

There's a lot of racism in West Virginia. I don't know why that was ever a controversial statement.

That doesn't mean that classism is OK, though.

[IceSpear]

There's a lot of racism in West Virginia. I don't know why that was ever a controversial statement.

Run now. Before it's too late!