WV not really the south.
Hard to imagine the Klan being much of a political asset 1940s to 1960s WV. WV had less the 3% black population, even smaller Jewish & small Catholic population. Unless Byrd needed its organizational thuggery for “get-out-the-vote” reasons & implied intimidation. Why would he when he had the UMWA & other unions to do it.
WV is long north to south. Lots of southern sympathy in there southern rural areas. Outside of Oceana was the Smith Plantation which had slaves all during the war. not much interest in the union army attacking Wyoming County. My sister’s house was dup the hill where the slave quarters were on the Smith place.
Well, no. Given their origin as the anti-secessionist part of Virginia, no part at all. And Delaware, home of VP Biden was a slave state. Sorry, border state. Impacted not at all by the Emancipation Proclamation. If we speak of slave state Democrats rather than Southern Democrats, Biden was one of them. Facts are so confusing, which is why so many leftists ignore them.