True, and I'll take a conservative Dem over a liberal Dem any day of the week. Hopefully, the GOP will win big enough in November that the occasional conservative Democrat making a pro forma vote for their own Party's leader for the Speakership won't make a difference.
WV strikes me as being about where a lot of the Deep South states like Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina were thirty years ago - willing to vote for a Republican at the Presidential level, but still locked in with the Dems at the local and district level. This makes sense as WV started to make the break a couple of decades after the Deep South did. Shoot, WV went for Carter in 1980, Dukakis in 1988, and Clinton both times. One could make the argument that WV has been voting reliably Republican at the Presidential level only since 2000.
I think that if the Democrats scale back the anti-coal, greenie rhetoric, they'll get WV back.
West Virginia is full of social conservatives (pro-gun, pro-military, pro-God, pro-life) who reliably forget all about that stuff when it's time to vote for more government cheese.