[Sender]

My wife and I were the other two Republicans in West Virginia but strangely enough, we seemed to agree on most everything with our Democrat neighbors. I guess WV Dems are a lot more 'normal' than those New Englander and NY Dems.

[GOP_Proud]

< My wife and I were the other two Republicans in West Virginia but strangely enough, we seemed to agree on most everything with our Democrat neighbors. >

I describe WV Democrats the way I describe my late "yellow dog Democrat" grandfather. We could quiz him on every plank in the Republican platform (prayer in school-for, anti-abortion-for, anything for better education-for...you could go thru it all) and be in agreement for all of the core values of Republicans. Then we would ask him why he voted Democrat. His answer was always: because they support the common man. This has been ingrained in this state thru the years and it is very hard to defeat. We are making inroads. That's why I get along with my neighboring Democrats. They feel almost 100% the same as me...they just have this belief that the Dems are always watching out for the little guy. There have been some converts though.