Only an adopted son here. Came in ‘02 after I retired.
Coming from NYC where EVERYONE talks politics, I found that few here will do likewise. A late friend explained it when he said to me “...they know where you live.”
I hang around another friend’s business here and he often gets pols and lawyers in. They always ask where I live. LOL (I lie and just say “in town”)
Me too, except I'm still working.
My take is that West Virginians are pro-God, pro-gun, pro-life and pro-military, but they are also pro-trial lawyer, pro-disability fraud, pro-union, and pro-government cheese.
By and large a better class of people than you'll meet in most Northern cities though.......