A Comment About
Governor Manchin Names Old Family Friend as Senator to Replace Robert Byrd
July 16, 2010 - 3:40 pm
Meredith Dixon
2010-07-16 18:02:01
>Republicans have simply had trouble gaining traction in the state ever since its founding.
Nonsense. West Virginia was solidly Republican until the end of Reconstruction in the South (1876). It went Democratic for the rest of the 19th century, and then turned Republican again until the New Deal. It has only been reliably Democratic since the 1930′s.
