Why does West Virginia skew so anti-Obama?

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26. the number of w. virginians fighting on either side was low, and about equally union and confederate

On May 30, 1861, Brig. Gen. George B. McClellan in Cincinnati wrote to President Lincoln: "I am confidently assured that very considerable numbers of volunteers can be raised in Western Virginia...".[12] After nearly two months in the field in West Virginia he was less optimistic. He wrote to Gov. Francis Harrison Pierpont of the Restored Government of Virginia in Wheeling that he and his army were anxious to assist the new government, but that eventually they would be needed elsewhere, and that he urged that troops be raised "among the population". "Before I left Grafton I made requisitions for arms clothing etc for 10,000 Virginia troops – I fear that my estimate was much too large."[13] On August 3, 1861, the Wellsburg "Herald" editorialized "A pretty condition Northwestern Virginia is in to establish herself as a separate state...after all the drumming and all the gas about a separate state she has actually organized in the field four not entire regiments of soldiers and one of these hails almost entirely from the Panhandle."[14]

Similar difficulties were experienced by Confederate authorities at the beginning of the war.

The West Virginia Dept. of Archives and History believes that Confederate and Union numbers were about equal[34][35]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_in_the_American_Civil_War#Soldiery