Why does West Virginia get to take credit for not joining the Confederacy when it feels like they've been openly helping it out for as long as I've been alivehttps://twitter.com/inyourcalture/status/1365129772955799552 …
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Because it turns out having been a former Confederate state barely meant getting any actual formal punishment at all, so the general structural reasons the South struggled economically hit WV just as hard as VA after the war, if not worse
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(After all, the plantation economy slowly languished and died under industrialization after the war But the plantation owners still had a lot of capital to sit on as business dried up WV seceded from VA in the first place because they had no plantations)
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