Short answer--Why bother (see Hillgoose above)
Long answer--Coal power plants are going to keep closing, WV mines are going to keep declining and shut down as the coal gives out, even the met coal mines (a major one will close this week for "geologic reasons"). Fat Nixon can lie to them all day, it doesn't change reality.
Their population pyramid is totally fubar'd. They have fewer people than they did in 1980.
They have fewer people than they did in 1950. They have 262,000 people between the ages of 55-64 and 212,000 between the ages 10-19. They had 30,000 births in 1980 and 18,500 last year. They are not a magnet for and are in fact hostile to the idea of immigration. They are a lock to have fewer people in 2050 than they do now. They don't have a Senator who can drag stuff into the state like they once did. They live in geographically difficult terrain where infrastructure is difficult to build and maintain. There is no compelling reason economically to build and maintain such infrastructure.
Save for the Eastern Panhandle and Morgantown (and even Morgantown is iffy) there is no reason to expect anything different from West Virginia. Why bother.
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How the hell is this absurd and ignorant? Every word of that post is true, and it's backed up by facts and figures.
