[Non-Sequitur]

Are they anything like the West Virginia counties that had voted to secede from the US, did not vote to be part of West Virginia, but were put in it anyway by the North and the faux Virginia government?

Well if you want to draw the comparison then perhaps its valid. But if part of West Virginia was reluctantly incorporated into the Union then there is no denial that whole sections of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama were reluctantly incorporated into the confederacy. So if you want to decry the fate of the Virginia counties then will be as vocal in condemning the confederacy for forcing whole sections of their territory into their 'country' against their will?

[rustbucket]

But if part of West Virginia was reluctantly incorporated into the Union then there is no denial that whole sections of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama were reluctantly incorporated into the confederacy.

As I said above: "In other cases (NC, TN, AL, FL) it was the constitutional action of the whole state; in the case of West Virginia it was the unconstitutional action of a piece of a state which had no authority over dissenting counties."

But I forget. You don't understand the Constitution.