Also remember in 1924, the Dem Presidential standard bearer (former Congressman and Wilson’s Solicitor-General John William Davis) hailed from WV. It was the last time a Conservative was on the Dem ticket for President (and the last time two Conservatives faced off on both tickets). The left was hysterical at the time, complaining about not having a choice (of course, we knew that feeling in 2008 and 2012).
1942 was also the last year the GOP was able to win a 6-year Senate race with Chapman Revercomb (he lost in 1948, but made a comeback for a 2-year term in 1956 when a young Cecil Underwood won the Governorship for the first time for the GOP since 1928).
Well they did get a choice when Doc Emmitt Brown, I mean Robert La Follette, ran.
Davis may have been the wrong kind of conservative, pro-segregation, against women’s suffrage (though maybe that WAS a bad idea, haha just kidding ladies). Still better than a commie though. Major fluke, the last one before him was Alton Parker right? Or was he not that conservative?