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To: Non-Sequitur; mstar
Whole counties were in rebellion against the Richmond regime in western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, northern Alabama, and parts of Florida. You know "counties."

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? Not exactly. 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.

Wikipedia has interesting maps of the West Virginia counties that voted for Virginia's secession from the US and those that apparently boycotted the statehood referendum. See the following links to West Virginia maps [Scroll down for the two Wikipedia maps]. Here is another version of the map of counties voting for secession from the US map [Slightly more detailed WV secession vote map] and some discussion of the vote [West Virginia, The Other History].

142 posted on 08/22/2010 9:03:12 AM PDT by rustbucket
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To: rustbucket
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?

146 posted on 08/22/2010 9:33:52 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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