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To: Old Man From WV

Well that is how WV became a state in the first place.. WV section ov what was then VA didn’t want to secede from the Union, so they broke away from VA and became their own state....

No reason to not welcome more of VA into WVA...

If this ever became serious, I think you would see a good bit of western and central VA be willing to seriously consider it, especially the crazier and crazier and more and more influence NOVA is having over the state government.


35 posted on 01/13/2020 1:47:46 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay
No reason to not welcome more of VA into WVA...

Actually there is a reason. It's the US Constitution.

It says no state may be subdivided or have part of a state given to another or made into a state without that state's permission. That will surely NEVER happen.

WV was a loophole. Virginia had left the Union. As the price for readmittance they were forced to acquiesce to the independence of West Virginia.


37 posted on 01/13/2020 2:00:19 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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