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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(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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And then thanks to the vicissitudes of history the federal government becomes big business in the 20th century and a ton of the economic growth in DC ends up sprawling out to VA for bullshit zoning reasons and VA sucks up all that sweet tax revenue
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