[Billie]

They have been duped by the welfare peddlers and the union thugs for too many years. Then there's the "tradition" factor. Pappy was a democrat and that's good enough for me.

Sad that many people are that way, Nan. I wonder, if the dems didn't bring busloads of people to the polls who wouldn't otherwise vote (and don't have a clue what they're voting for)how badly the Republican candidates would beat them.

[WVNan]

WV history made them vulnerable to the lies. It started with an isolated independent people who lived off the land and carved out a meager but free living. Then came the idustrial barons from up East to exploit the state's natural resources. First it was the lumber, to the point of denuding most of the forests. Thank God they have regrown. Then came the big coal companies and hired the free hill people and gave then access to the "conpany store." They neglected to tell the people that their bill at the co. store would be more than their wages. The people became slaves to the company. Everything they had could only be had through the company. A generation forgot how to live free off the land. They were ripe pickings for the unions, who promised them everything and delivered very little. And the democrats who promised them "free" everything. It created a dependent society as it has in the ghettos of the cities. They are beginning to break out of it now and I'm hopeful that their natural desire for freedom will take hold again. There will be a test next week on this history lesson.