exactly, and Hellary wrote off the coal factories which cost her the election
Actually it wasn’t Hillary... Democrats wrote off Coal back in the Clinton years....
Gore lost in 2000 because he lost WV... not because he lost FL....
2000 was the warning sign to dems that they were losing the working class white voter... but they ignored it.... and in 2008 and 2012 high minority turnouts made them further double down on the notion they didn’t need them.....
They were utterly wrong.
Now after nearly 30 years of purging the party of ANYONE at the national level who understands and relates to the working class voter, they have no chance to win them back, because they spent 20 years blaming them for every wrong in the world in order to pander to other groups for their vote.
2016 should not have been a surprise to ANYONE....