I went to a panel presentation on the early colonies around the Revolution once. When they took questions, I asked if there was any special logistical problems Virginia ran into after due to how large the territory was and man, they treated me like a fuckin idiot. I still think about that. It’s not, like, important or anything I just don’t have a therapist for this sort of shit
Why did they treat you like that?
No idea. I still wonder sometimes where the disconnect was, but I also just try to not let things like that get to me anymore. I’m having mixed success
It’s got a few answers. For the first one, the logistics were handled by not administering the territory, those were only claims. For the next one, logistics were handled by breaking them up into other territories that would become states since administering it wasn’t feasible. In the third, it was possible, but it caused problems. The civil war was not the only grievance west virginia had. They had been neglected for the better part of a century. Richmond usually didn’t care much about those on the other side of the mountains. In some ways the civil war was just a good time to do what they’d probably wanted to for awhile. Really the logistics are the reason virginia is the size and shape it is today. Now they have a capitol where they can be not cared for by locals.
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Soon it’ll just be the peninsula. A bunch of ponies and Eastern Shore seasonalsEdit: was supposed to be a comment on the main post, fat fingered it, my bad
So has anyone calculated by what year it won’t exist?
2025
I still don’t understand why they named West Virginia so. Virginia has land further West. North Virginia?
Historical context makes it even weirder. The split was because WV allied with the North in the Civil War, North Virginia makes infinitely more sense in more ways than one.
That really does. But humans aren’t particularly great at naming things sometimes.
Well the last one they did to themselves
I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing, I’m just saying eventually, all that will be left of Virginia will be the Delmarva peninsula and then Maryland will claim it.
Delaware is going to take over the whole peninsula with Joe Biden leading the way. It’s all part of his evil scheme to have Delaware take over the entire Mid-Atlantic region.
“Listen, Jack. No foolin’. We take over the peninsula and the trains will be great.”
Woah, I never realized Virginia had a detached peninsula like Michigan
It’s imaginatively called “The Eastern Shore of Virginia.”
No one wants West Virginia
You mean the birthplace of the labor movement where the US government used artillery on stinking miners?
The current government sucks, but the history has some truly glorious and revolutionary moments.
It’s easy to shit on West Virginia now, but at least they were formed by splitting from Virginia in favor of abolishing slavery. That’s pretty cool in my book.
West by God Virginia. I spent a lot of time there reminding people we fought for the north.
Moved to this God forsaken state from Wisconsin 4 years ago and God do I regret it with every ounce of my being. Someone take me back to cheese land please
Well, just wait a while and Virginia will shrink again, and you will be in another state.
Hopefully it just recedes into the ocean never to be seen again
I much prefer the 1609 version. Why have natural borders when you can have an arbitrary diagonal line that splits the majority of the continent?
Soon it’ll just be the peninsula. A bunch of ponies and Eastern Shore seasonals
Still trying to shake off the Eastern Shore…
Looking at you, Onancock…
MAVA!
They know what they did.
