Although modern politics has changed things, rednecks have historically been anti authority and pro labor. Building a rural/urban alliance like Bill Clinton did would genuinely create an entirely new era of politics that would be friendly to liberal leftist ideologies.
You mean big companies no longer work with the government to interfere with workers trying to unionize?
More like decades of anti-union propaganda, plus culture war bullshit, have conditioned the people of West Virginia (and the US as a whole) to be against unions
Nah they have fighter jets though.