Or, is it regional and primarily generational?

Or Educational and Monetary?

Senator Clinton is VERY STRONG with almost all groups over 50, except African Americans?

But, if there is any group that Senator McCain is going to fight her for, that's it?

And, here's the counter question for her:

Big City or Black?

She is losing there as well, winning rural primarily?

Slice and dice, slice and dice....

what is happening in states that he won before Rezko/Wrigth and bittergate.  He won all those white folks in IA right?  But look again, he is losing them now and Clinton is winning them against McCain.
Look at all the other red/swing states he won... he is losing them now with the exception of CO.
His blue states are smaller and have much less delegates than Hillary's blue states and she is winning her swing states in the present EC count. Neither of them is winning MO right now, but there is no reason, not a single one to believe he will do better there than Hillary does.  In fact given the present dynamics I would bet she has a chance of winning MO and he does not.

His self inflicted wounds are real.  People are getting to know who he is past the Hope rhetoric and he is leaking support right and left and independent.

that is resistant to Obama.  It is more of a regional thing.

The problem is that Appalachia takes up parts of swing states in the mid-West that Obama needs to win including Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

I personally think that Obama needs to work harder to win these voters.

Obama has won white voters without a college degree in ONE STATE - Wisconsin.  He didn't even win them in Illinois.

Focusing on Obama's overall wins among white voters misses the point and is a good way to make sure the problem gets ignored from now until November.  Sure, Obama has no problem at all winning the votes of whites with college degrees, and that's great.  But when he's losing the ones without college degrees, in state after state after state, it's disappointing to see people conclude that it's some kind of "regional" problem.

I get the feeling that it's education as the strongest component of the issue; West Virginia, and most of Appalachia, has a drastically lower high school graduation rates than most of the rest of the country.  Those states outside of the region that do have similar graduation rates also have large African American population segments.  If you look at the non-black areas of these states (Alabama & Mississippi, for example), I think that they'll be voting with similar trends as Appalachia.

This isn't so much a racial thing (though race is certainly a part of it) as it is an issue with Obama's intellectualism.  If a segment of the electorate hasn't been to college and wasn't so hot on high school, either, they're not going to appreciate some multicultural egghead lecturing them on what the country needs, when they don't feel like they need anything fancy... just a job, values, and good friends and family getting together to do the things they like to do.

The challenge is to frame the debate in terms of not speaking down to these people and addressing their issues.  How many of them have fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers, uncles, aunts, or cousins at war overseas?  How much are they paying for food or gas?  How many have lost their jobs over the last eight years and had a hard time getting a new one?

These are the issues that we need to hook these people back with.  John McCain is weak on all of them; his only defense is his war hero image, but these voters hate it when people reveal themselves as hypocrites.  Get out that McCain would rather a soldier do six tours instead of two before getting education benefits under the new G.I. Bill, people are going to start questioning his priorities.

I hope that was clear.

as the Appalachian area is older demographically.

The gist of things regarding working class voters which I'm picking up from reading various online articles and listening to the cable news channels exploring and discussing the W. Virginia primary results and exit polling data is this:

1. Race factors into the results to the extent that they simply feel more comfortable voting for someone they readily identify with so to speak, which is not the same thing as racism.

2. A majority believe that Obama shares Rev. Wright's values.

3. With regard to your "Appalachian region votes so differently than the rest of the country" opening statement, it's an oversimplification which isn't supported by the impirical evidence. If you look at the voting patterns and exit poll data going back as far as, and even including Iowa, it's been there all along. It's just that now the situation is becoming more pronounced.

 She is fracturing the party intentionally, even though her chance of winning is .02%.

 Obama won't be running against the Clinton's, plural, in the fall.

 Meanwhile she continues to damage the presumptive nominee. If she or her surrogates what 'white' one more time....... well she is starting to sound a lot like a white Al Sharpton.

The only time a divided national convention lead to a victory was for FDR, and we had the Great Depression going on.

A divided convention means no matter who gets the nod, will lose. It will forever tarnish the Clinton legacy and will prevent her from getting the nomination in 4 years.

Is that what you want? Or would you prefer that this is over by early June so we can beat McCain?

WV better get on the Obama band wagon or they will be left at the station if they want their state to be in with the next president of the US.  WV made a bad mistake last night in going with Clinton.  It may come back to haunt WV.  WV voters can make it up by voting for Obama in the GE.  I hope that they soon realize this.

as a  whole but West Virginia, unfortunately, is a very depressing state. The extremes are something of a phenomena. It is a very aged population, an extremely poor population and they have the lowest amount of college graduates in the country. An eighth grade education is not unusual for certain pockets in the state. This is remarkable in and of itself.
Which begs a question. What is the literacy rate of the electorate? Literacy is vital to a well-informed electorate, so it would almost be safe to assume that most of the voters there, were not voting on the issues but on name recognition.

They also seem to respond primarily to smaller, one-on-one type forums and not the ten thousand plus arena crowds that Obama commands. But, certainly, with a population that is overwhelmingly poverty-stricken and ill-informed, there will be unique issues that would need to be addressed.

Fortunately, WV is the exception and not the rule.

Yep. Everyone who voted for Clinton is uneducated and illiterate. Never mind that she actually carried college grads here too.

Working Class, Middle Class is Hillary's strong suit and it always has been.

That's why everyone always talked about Hillary having the base of the party.  Wokring Americans, middle class is the base of the Democrats.  

When the middle class feels they're not being represented by giving a "snotty", or "Mightier than thou", "condescending", "Elite", they turn to the Republicans.  FACT.  And B O's policies reAffirm that.  And no matter how much he wants to spin that he's campaigning for the Middle, the middle is not some affluent that doesn't want to say they're a Dem.

Hillary will win.