[Ditto]

Virginia, my native state, voted against secession on April 4, 1861 and did not vote for secession until Lincoln called for troops to invade the South.

And then you lost about of a quarter of your white population when the Western counties with few if any slaves told the tidewater Virginia slavocrats to go to hell.

Almost heaven, West Virginia. They were never part of the slave empire and those Hillbillys never much cared for the phony aristrocrats like Bobby Lee in the first place. ;~))

[wfu_deacons]

About half the counties in the present state of West Virginia voted for secession in May 1861. The greatest “West Virginian” is still Stonewall Jackson (of course, he is really a Virginian).