PHILADELPHIA — Toward the end of our trip through Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia, I was looking for a hotel in Fairmont, W.V. on a Google map and noticed in tiny letters the word Barrackville.

 

We got a good laugh out of that but realized it could be a fun stop for our project identifying why these states have moved from solid red into battlegrounds.

 

In this bucolic town we heard many of the same heartbreaking...