West Virginia

Their governor, Jim Justice, is humongous. One of the largest men I have ever laid eyes on in real life.

Can be very beautiful but also lots of poverty and I mean like hillbillies in shacks kind of poverty.

Chock full of Trumpkins

It is a beautiful state, but filled with West Virginians. A very ignorant, close-minded, trashy culture. And now the heroin epidemic and wrecking havoc there.

Slack-jawed hillbillies who all voted for Trump.

What r2 said. We went to visit a friend of my mother's once. While he lived on a Colonial estate, once I walked off his property, I saw a woman beating laundry on a rock or washboard at a creek.

Mountain people.

I have an old friend from West Virginia and her and her family are some of the most genteel people I have ever met. I escorted her to her senior prom and was surprised to find be held at the Greenbrier. There is an upper class there but most are more like the White family who are famous mountain cloggers from West Virginia. The movie below is an example of that lifestyle.

Isn't the governor the richest person in the state?

You'll love the neighbors.

Hillbilly sizemeat is legendary - super long/thick/uncut and stinky with cheese!

Are they considered a southern state, with southern culture?

They are closed minded, religious right who are the worst sinners you would ever want to meet. White trash galore.

No, r12.

Inbred.

Almost heaven, West Virginia...

It's a state where large parts of the country side and the population have been decimated by the rest of the country's need for electricity.

Good change the electricity driving whatever device you're using to post to DL came from the people you take pleasure in ridiculing.

Now thanks to Trump's foolish economic message and Clinton's inability to explain her economic plan we are back on track to destroying more people and more land.

West Virginia, It's Just for When ya'..........

R17:

[quote] Natural gas surpassed coal last year as the most common source for electricity generation in the United States, according to a Post analysis of preliminary data from the Energy Information Administration. Coal was responsible for a majority of electricity generation at the start of the century and was still the source for nearly half in 2008 but has fallen steadily, accounting for 30 percent last year. Natural gas powered 34 percent of the country's electricity last year, passing coal as well as nuclear.

Nevertheless, West Virginia does look like it has some beautiful rural and nature areas, what with the rivers and forests.

I aspire to be like Miss Sue Bob White, the sexy one.

Deplorables not withstanding, WV is a beautiful state, particularly this time of year. Harpers Ferry is particularly lovely and Morgantown & Charleston aren't bad. I travel to west to Ohio frequently and WV isn't as hard core Trump as Ohio or even rural areas of WV.

I've been there several times, but never stayed overnight.

Beautiful state--the Appalachians are more interesting there than in places further South or East. Doesn't get tourists like the retiree-ridden Skyline Highway/Blue Ridge Parkway, which means you avoid a lot of annoyances. People there can surprise you--more than once I've been in very simple places and heard more interesting conversation than I'd casually encounter in DC. A lot of people with connection to the land and nature, with very active grassroots conservation groups. But also tremendous poverty and people living in places where you can't imagine anyone scratching out a living. Still, I think it's far more beautiful than places people seem to know better and treat with less disrespect like kudzu and strip mall ridden North Carolina.

Typical scene from West Virginia

Well, Clarice Starling for one, OP.

Yes, R12

I was there on business a few times, to Wheeling. Countryside was very, very pretty. The people were unfailingly nice to me. The weather left a little to be desired.

Beautiful state but very, very poor. Lots of mobile homes with huge satellite dishes in rural areas. I lived in Charleston for a year and couldn't wait to get away. I grew up in a town of 2000 in the mid-west so I know rural but these people were hillbillies. I taught at the University of Charleston which is a small private college. It was very strange. Most of the students were from out of state and were rejects from Ivy league schools. The university was right on the river so it had a really good rowing program and many of them were there for crew. Most were business or liberal arts majors. The university also had a good size population of local students who were on scholarship. It was like night and day. The university also had a large nursing and pharmacy program. Most of those students were local as well. Very diverse. It was hard teaching because they had so little shared experiences in their background. The rich kids had traveled the world and the locals had never been outside of WV. I took a group of students out to the rural areas for a theater outreach program for grade school kids. There were times when I was literally scared and thought "What the fuck am I doing out here." Charleston was nice. Had one gay bar if I remember correctly and one adult bookstore.

Take me home, country road!

The New River Birding Festival attracts birdwatchers from all over (including lots of Lesbians).

Born and raised in WV, attended West Virginia University for undergraduate degree. Obtained my post graduate degree out of state but chose to return to WV for a business opportunity. Having been fortunate enough to travel a good amount in Europe and the US, I still chose to remain living in WV. The state has many of the qualities (and weaknesses) mentioned by above posters. Native West Virginians are loyal, hardy, and determined folks who recognized the basic goodness of the natural beauty of the state and are willing to forgo many urban perks for the solitude the rugged terrain affords. Truly a beautiful state during the summer & fall and a welcome respite to visit.

Beautiful state full of inbred meth addicts.

Just gorgeous.

I lived on the Va/WVa border in the sixties as a kid. The people are decent and hard working; and, believe it or not, there is a small haute bourgeoisie contingent even within this land of paper and coal procurement.

Almost heaven, my vaginey

You can fuck it or can fuck my hiney

Dark and musty, dripping pussy juice

oh you can fuck my anus, if my cunts too loose

Cunty roads, take me home to the place I belongs, my vaginey, mountain mammy take me home cunty roads

I’m really happy with all the responses that don’t fall on the deplorable hillbilly trope ( which is a valid criticism). I’m a native West Virginian and still live here. I’m very proud of this state and want to make in better. Hi fellow Mountaineer, R31! Can I ask what you do for a living?

r31 you sound just like my good friend from Little Rock defending Arkansas in much the same manner. It still doesn't entice me evening after having lived there briefly.

[quote]Their governor, Jim Justice, is humongous. One of the largest men I have ever laid eyes on in real life.

You have no idea what humongous is

Deplorable central!

Do the WV men have clean holes?

At least they are not Alabama!

Spent a lot of time in Southern WV coal country for work. Lovely state. A mix of nice, but guarded people and complete trash. Had a lot of great sex with country guys.

The northern panhandle is commercially and culturally connected to Pittsburgh, the eastern panhandle to Washington, D.C.

[quote]places people seem to know better and treat with less disrespect like kudzu and strip mall ridden North Carolina.

That is a weird comparison. North Carolina has pockets of civilization at least. You have progressive cities like Asheville, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte. You have Duke and UNC which are globally regarded universities.

West Virginia....is West Virginia, it is a completely provincial deadzone.

There was an old lady from Wheeling

Who had a funny feeling.

She laid on her back

And tickled her crack

And pissed all over the ceiling.

I grew up in Kentucky and spent my adult life in Chicago and D.C./NoVa. West Virginia has only ever been a scary place to drive through for me, either because of road conditions in the winter or because of the locals. There are some great crafts there, however.

Don't be mean, R43

Dirty Holes and Spicy Beef Curtains.

Asheville, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte...total kudzu and strip mall country. Asheville has to be the most overrated arts mecca I've ever visited. Trash you can buy anywhere.

That's nice r48, I'm not here to sing their praise as the best cities, but [italic]compared to West Virginia[/italic], those places might as well be fucking Manhattan. They still have people that are educated, liberal, and know a little something of the world outside of their own backyard.

Scary

what you need is that "Appalitia" guy from the other thread.

West Virginia is gorgeous, but the people are, statistically, more poor and uneducated than most. It is a very Trump-friendly place. Every single county went for him, including the ones with their small "cities." The West Virginians I've met were decent people, despite the mass delusion that Donald Trump is worth voting for. And of course like any place the state does have a liberal minority.

Lots of horny guys with hard cocks in Beckley, Princeton and Bluefield. Had great motel sex there

Even the tour guides have bulges

West Virginia always makes me think of this episode of Dateline I saw about this super hot hillbilly from West Virginia who played football and drank mountain dew. Then he got it on with his underage cousin which is gross.

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THEre is the Greenbrier and the rest which is flyover country.

The interesting thing is, when Mondale (and I think Carter '80 and Dukakis) ran, West Va was one of the few (and in '84 I think only other than Minnesota) to go Dem - which back then was red btw.

And now it's redder and red. How things change. Like people don't believe me when I tell them New Jersey used to be a huge battleground state , and when Clinton won it back in '92 they were breaking out the champagne at headquarters.

My family is from Jersey and trust me it's much more conservative then you would think, especially the sections my parents were from (i.e. The nice parts).

WV will remain a hellhole until coal is well and truly dead.

[quote]THEre is the Greenbrier

The Greenbrier is a dump.

R28, WVU has a weird town–gown thing going on too—most of the out-of-state students are from New Jersey.

The UC campus moved from the sticks to Charleston in the 1930s. It looks like a hospital.

Great cruising at the truck stops. Lots of methheads. Sleazy, nasty, redneck guys who fuck good, always raw. No recip.

R28, I think many out-of-state students at UC think they're headed to College of Charleston in Charleston, SC. The other Charleston is beautiful and wealthy.

Charleston is the capital and I believe the population is down to 45,000. And that's the biggest city in the state. Sad.

My parents lived in Huntington in the early 90s. The nicest restaurant then was a steakhouse which was inside a bowling alley. You could here the pins drop while you dined. Charleston and Huntington are about the same size.

I was born in West Virginia, abandoned by my birth mother, adopted as an infant and taken to Ohio. I’m now a New Yorker; out, employed in the arts, fairly successful and slightly terrified that my genes will one day catch up with me.

R58 The Greenbrier is most certainly not a dump. It may not be your cup of tea, but upper middle class and upper class families have been vacationing there since the forties. The golf is great and I cannot think of any other family resort which offers so many outdoor activities.

From WV, and went to Marshall U in the 90s....huge, huge amount of closeted frat guys at that college, and I was one of them. So, so many. The library at MU was like sex central, it was weird. And there was a restaurant in town that had a bunch of hot guys working there. Oliviers, I think. Good times, that's for sure.

Oh good lord, all the A gays from DC got property in Lost River , there are hundreds of them from DC with 2nd homes there.

[quote] The UC campus moved from the sticks to Charleston in the 1930s. It looks like a hospital.

I was going to say it looks like one of those minimum security "nice" prisons.

[quote] Had a lot of great sex with country guys.

R41 do tell. How do these strapping corn-fed guys like it? How fast, how hard, how loud? Do they go in bareback? Do they like to breed outdoors? Do you have to get the curious guys liquored up on cornmash first? How would you rate the experience?

Also: did any of your fucks look like this guy? If yes, please give details of your close encounter with him in the WV cornfields.

West Virginia delegate switches from Democrat to Republican to join "Majority Party"

OP = Boris, gathering local details and color to educate herself the next time she needs to pretend she’s from West Virginia. Yet you all fall for these “tell me about _____” threads for some reason.

Deplorables not withstanding

For future reference it is 'notwithstanding', not 2 words.

Slack-jawed hillbillies who all voted for Carter and Bill Clinton

How do you know that the toothbrush was invented in West Virginia?

It's not called a teethbrush.

[quote]The UC campus moved from the sticks to Charleston in the 1930s. It looks like a hospital.

It was called Morris Harvey College and my mother went there for a semester in the late 50s when she did poorly at an out of state school by partying too much.

The state is a dump and the fatty governor owns The Greenbrier, which when it lost one of its Michelin stars a "star" columnist of the Charleston paper wrote "We don't need no high falutin 5 star venues in West By God Virginia."

Here's fatty and his family. This pic sits outside his office on an easel in the capitol.