Just to be clear to everyone, I compared the Tomblin numbers to the Obama numbers and factored in that Obama lost WV by 13% to get my baselines. That caused some odds swings, even putting aside Tomblin's geographic base. Maybe they were more muted vis a vis the Manchin-Raese race, which is fine. That would tease out perhaps the racial factor. Maybe Kanawha is totally not racist.
(The second map is 1996 to 2000, not 2000 to 2004, which doesn't show much of interest except for more Coal Country Republican Resurgence.)
What does the Eastern Panhandle look like in your metric?
