the current excuse is that West Virginia is poor as fuck and Virginia doesn't want anything to do with it
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(which was true back then too - it was the poor white folks who saw no benefit in fighting for slavery)
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the reason they didn't remerge right after the war is that the Rebel states temporarily lost their vote in Congress
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they probably should've lost it longer than they did but oh well
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it is on some level deeply ironic that VA proper is now doing so well entirely bc of federal government spending
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all these federal DC commuters coming to live on streets named after Confederate generals
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I visited the spot in Alexandria VA where the 1st civil war casualty happened
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Army officer tried to get a guy to take down his Confederate flag and the guy shot him
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the more things change I guess
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Replying to @arthur_affect @geek_worlds
But I think is more about how states in the US develop an identity out of isolation and oversized territory.
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well we started with states that legitimately had a very long history as separate colonies before independence
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and that became a cultural expectation of new states as they were created
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Replying to @arthur_affect @geek_worlds
I can imagine, here the attempt to unite three separate colonies (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador) failed...
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