So has anyone calculated by what year it won’t exist?
Virginia is shrinking!
Submitted 9 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Good
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maryland stands behind this opinion.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You say good, but that could mean North Carolina will get bigger!
RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 9 months ago
As long as Ohio is not expanding
Toes@ani.social 9 months ago
Wait until you see it in 2034
Brosplosion@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Virginia has some interesting laws that kick into effect then. Google “Virginia Rule '34” for more info
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 9 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Will there be any left to see?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Sure hope not.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Its not the size that matters. It’s motion of Virginias ocean!
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Make it smaller. Make it the size of Wales.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
What is this? A Virginia for ants?
Gork@lemm.ee 9 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?
figaro@lemdro.id 9 months ago
I’m told that India and Pakistan loved this setup, and still celebrate the arbitrary line to this day.
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I still don’t understand why they named West Virginia so. Virginia has land further West. North Virginia?
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 9 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.
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That really does. But humans aren’t particularly great at naming things sometimes.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
the nucleus of Virginia Proper is further east
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Where is the mitochondria of Virginia though?
Pulptastic@midwest.social 9 months ago
Western Virginia doesn’t matter.
Raab@lemmy.world 9 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
Belgdore@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Well, just wait a while and Virginia will shrink again, and you will be in another state.
Raab@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hopefully it just recedes into the ocean never to be seen again
TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
What brought you out there?
Raab@lemmy.world 9 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
Chocrates@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well the last one they did to themselves
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 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.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Woah, I never realized Virginia had a detached peninsula like Michigan
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 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.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
No one wants West Virginia
jballs@sh.itjust.works 9 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.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 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.
Scribbd@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Just like magnetic pole flips, Virginia is due another shrink snap. It might snap out of existence when it happens.
stinerman@midwest.social 9 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.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Still trying to shake off the Eastern Shore…
Looking at you, Onancock…
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Soon it’ll just be the peninsula. A bunch of ponies and Eastern Shore seasonals
udon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
MAVA!
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They know what they did.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
#landback
ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 9 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
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 9 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
ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 9 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.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 9 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2ScOwezL8
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 9 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.
ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 9 months ago
👊
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Why did they treat you like that?
ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 9 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
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Soon it’ll just be the peninsula. A bunch of ponies and Eastern Shore seasonals.