If you have a few minutes this Sunday check out this video about some guy who follows Bernie Sanders around deep red West Virginia.
https://youtu.be/RP8Oxe6OxJc?si=pxfepGpaUf8GVVXz
You don't have to be a Bernie fan to connect with the basic thesis that these desperately poor rural areas are being sold a bill of goods by MAGA, and are natural prospects for progressive people focused anti-corporate policies.
Now, if only Dems could break free of their current corporate centrism we might get somewhere.