....I wish I could say I was surprised. I am not.
I graduated high school in West Virginia (Class of '98). My junior year, I was in a class about the law. The teacher had this exercise where he would gather us all up to the front of the class, and proposed this scenario:
A prostitute runs into a police station. Police run kit, find out she has been raped. Was a crime committed here? (Obviously, hell yes there was)
One side for yes, one side for no. I was the only one on the yes side. All the others had decided that there had been no crime. The professor then asked if we were sure, and in my case, asked if I wanted to switch sides.
"No, I'm good." One of the other classmates went over to my side. And he then asked me about it. "Doesn't matter, rape's rape, whether homemaker or prostitute." When he asked the girl who came over to my side why she switched, she answered, "Well, he's usually right about these things, and if he's against the whole class, something's very wrong here."
I was right. But the point is that the mentality that somehow rape is okay is in there. But it can be corrected. I hardly think it's a problem unique to WV.