this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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Explanation: During the US Civil War, the state of Virginia declared its secession from the Federal government, in order that Virginia might preserve slavery. The Appalachian Mountains, however, were a stronghold of anti-slaver and pro-Union sentiment, so after resisting Confederate attempts to subdue them, the people of the western regions of Virginia decided that they would secede from Virginia in order to rejoin the Union. The Federal government opted to recognize this, and so the state of West Virginia was born!
Shame how things in West Virginia are anymore.
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Shouldn't the map of Virginia as it was when the US govt rejected their claims of secession include what later broke off to become West Virginia?
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