The Barbour machine hates McDaniel
Rinos hate conservatives;
And while I think out and out class warfare is the wrong way to approach things, there is a line with a great deal of truth in it from Alabama’s Song of the South:
Daddy was a veteran [WWI from context], a Southern Democrat, I’ve yet to meet a rich man who would vote like that.
I grew up in Southern Oregon where we had many people out of the south either immediately or one or two generations. Good folk. And not rich. My maternal Grandfather’s side drifted in from the Ozarks around 1910.