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Virginia is shrinking!

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      should have asked them why, if they were so set on being independent, they didn’t change the name of the state to something OTHER than the queen of england

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      • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        At the time I was 22 and didn’t have a firm grasp on the idea I could tell someone being rude to go fuck themselves. It was just a bunch of old folks pining for the glory days of national pride and dysentery, but like, fuck. Snuff out a curious light like that.

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      • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2ScOwezL8

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    • BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        👊

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    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why did they treat you like that?

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      • ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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

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    • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Soon it’ll just be the peninsula. A bunch of ponies and Eastern Shore seasonals.

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So has anyone calculated by what year it won’t exist?

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    • Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      2025

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  • RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good

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    • ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maryland stands behind this opinion.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You say good, but that could mean North Carolina will get bigger!

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      • RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As long as Ohio is not expanding

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  • Toes@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait until you see it in 2034

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    • Brosplosion@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Virginia has some interesting laws that kick into effect then. Google “Virginia Rule '34” for more info

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      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Virginia Rule '34

        Here’s what I found

        Wonder if that’s what you are referring to.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Will there be any left to see?

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      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure hope not.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Its not the size that matters. It’s motion of Virginias ocean!

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Make it smaller. Make it the size of Wales.

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    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is this? A Virginia for ants?

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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?

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    • figaro@lemdro.id ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m told that India and Pakistan loved this setup, and still celebrate the arbitrary line to this day.

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  • Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still don’t understand why they named West Virginia so. Virginia has land further West. North Virginia?

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    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That really does. But humans aren’t particularly great at naming things sometimes.

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    • lseif@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the nucleus of Virginia Proper is further east

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      • Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Where is the mitochondria of Virginia though?

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      • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Western Virginia doesn’t matter.

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  • Raab@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • Belgdore@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, just wait a while and Virginia will shrink again, and you will be in another state.

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      • Raab@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hopefully it just recedes into the ocean never to be seen again

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    • TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What brought you out there?

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      • Raab@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My girlfriends is from here originally and moved to WI in the 6th grade, we moved out here to reunite her with her entire family that lives here. We both regret it dearly

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  • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well the last one they did to themselves

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Woah, I never realized Virginia had a detached peninsula like Michigan

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      • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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    • itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No one wants West Virginia

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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      • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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  • Scribbd@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just like magnetic pole flips, Virginia is due another shrink snap. It might snap out of existence when it happens.

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  • stinerman@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder what the source is because in 1784, Connecticut made claims on the northwest part of Ohio (the Western Reserve). Virginia did have a claim on some part of central/southwest Ohio called the Virginia Military District, but that’s all I’m aware of.

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  • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still trying to shake off the Eastern Shore…

    Looking at you, Onancock…

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  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Soon it’ll just be the peninsula. A bunch of ponies and Eastern Shore seasonals

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  • udon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    MAVA!

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  • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They know what they did.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    #landback

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