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I fully expect the next secession the south will be joined with the mid western mountain states to form one Confederated country(whatever you want to call it).

I expect to call it Non-Obamaland and I don't expect Virginia to be part of it.

I also expect Virgina will divide(again).

It must just tear you up that the part that split off the last time is conservative while the part you're living in is a blue state.

Define “conservative.” Mountain people march to their own drummer, traditionalists by and large, anti-authoritarian but also having a populist streak that can extend to being anti-business.

West Virginia is not a reliably conservative state in national elections and it's by and large a Democrat state as far as state government goes. For all the bureaucrats, takers and leeches in the DC bubble of NoVa dragging Virginia leftward, they manage to elect a Republican governor time and again. West Virginia does not.

So, I'd be interested in your take on just how West Virginia is more conservative than Virginia.