Maybe because they don't believe in garage sales...because nobody has a garage?
WVA is in fact a beautiful place, but its inhabitants' reputation for being a little, um, thick is well deserved. I recall our group of four stopping by a Taco Bell near Elkins, each of us ordering two items, and they got all four orders wrong :)
And of course, as we've observed, they reliably vote MAGA, continually supporting the eradication of programs that keep their asses afloat, such as Medicaid.
But to return to the original question about Virginia, more battles have been fought there than in any other state, so maybe they're just more ornery there.