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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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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...so I can imagine any sense of regional pride equal or above a national one was deemed suspicious.
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yeah the question of whether the USA was one country or a federation of multiple "states" was open for a while
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then we had one of the bloodiest wars in history over it, eventually settling on "one country"
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but people are still very mad about it
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