[Colonel Kangaroo]

Had the Union army been close enough, the Greeneville Convention in East Tennessee might have had the same positive conclusion as WV's Wheeling Convention. Anyhow, West Virginia has a Civil War history to be proud of. The final won/lost results:

West Virginia 1-0

Virginia 0-1

[Grand Old Partisan]

When the U.S. Army marched into Knoxville, Tennessee in 1863, cheering residents waved American flags they had hidden at risk to their lives (yes, possessing the Stars and Stripes was a hanging offense for the Confederates) and placed rebel flags on the street for their liberators to walk on.

[Verginius Rufus]

Did the Greeneville convention get around to selecting a name for their proposed state, or boundaries? If they took the line that now divides the eastern time zone from the central time zone, the resulting east Tennessee state would have a present population of about 2.1 million (a bit over 1/3 of Tennessee's 5.8 million)...if they included one more tier of counties to the west, that would have added about 125,000 more present-day inhabitants. The question is--would that have been a sufficient population base for the Tennessee Vols to recruit from?

The other consequence of splitting Tennessee would be that we would now have 51 states. How do you arrange the stars on the flag? 51 is divisible only by 3 and 17...you could treat it as 21 + 30 (just as the current 50 stars are treated as a combination of 20 + 30), but that still doesn't lead to a neat arrangement of stars.

[M. Espinola]

Today's score:

The U.S.A.= 50-0

Neo-confederate cult= 0-50