The media romanticizes Appalachian ‘coal country’...which is fine with me, since they’d be horrified to see the scale of coal mining in Wyoming.
Wyoming is #1. By almost a factor of 4. The North Antelope Mine and the Black Thunder Mine each produce at least as much coal as the entire state of West Virginia (which is #2, by a factor of 1.5 over #3 Kentucky). 0bama certainly hates Coal Country (all of it); Coal Country voted for McCain and Romney.