If that's the case, they forgot to take 'Sheets' Byrd and George Wallace with them.
Wallace, maybe, but Byrd for decades was a reliable vote for every socialist scheme the democrat party could hatch.
The black population of West Virginia is negligible, and they have zero political clout, but the state's historic poverty for years kept West Virginia solidly on the democrat dole.
It was pounded into nearly every West Virginian from birth that they were saved from starvation and extinction by FDR and the democrat party.
West Virginia would still be solid democrat if the party hadn't gone crazy.
Between gun control, queers, the war against Christianity, and their envirowacko anti-coal policy, the democrats have worked themselves into deserved minority status in the state.