...and yet right next door in WV, a state with a very white and more aged population, a state where no Republican holds a state-wide office and both Sens. and two out of our three Reps are Rats......McCain won.
PA is heavily Catholic in the two major metros (Philly and Pitt) with sizeable Jewish population on the mainline. WV is made up largely of Scots-Irish protestants, who comprise the core of Sarah Palin’s base.
That was once true in most every southern state. WV and Arkansas, and Lousiana to a lesser extent, are about the only ones left with that alignment. It’ll change once Byrd and Rockefeller leave the scene.