The last rural Democrat in Kentucky’s legislature just switched parties. Robin Webb is wrong that Republicans better represent her coal-country constituents, but she’s right that Democrats lost interest in them long ago.

The last remaining Democratic state representative in rural Kentucky just announced she’s switching parties. Robin Webb’s partisan defection leaves the thirty-eight-member Kentucky State Senate with only six Democrats, all in the Lexington and Louisville areas. Explaining her decision on Fox News, Webb accused the Democratic Party of abandoning rural voters.

“I’ve tried to be the rural voice, but it’s just gone — not unheard, but certainly not acknowledged, and certainly not given the credence that I would think our people need,” Webb said.

Webb’s biography is the polit

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