View Poll Results: Should West Virginia reunify with Virginia?

Voters
22. You may not vote on this poll
  • Yes

    8 36.36%
  • No

    14 63.64%
Page 3 of 4 FirstFirst 1234 LastLast
Results 21 to 30 of 34

Thread: Should West Virginia see reunification with Virginia proper?

  1. #21
    Banned
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Last Online
    10-31-2012 @ 07:41 PM
    Location
    Iowa
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Germanic
    Ethnicity
    Danish
    Ancestry
    Danish
    Country
    United States
    Region
    Iowa
    Religion
    Lutheran
    Age
    25
    Gender
    Posts
    650
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 7
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Marmie Dearest View Post
    No that's incorrect 75 percent of seats in the senate for WV are Democrat, and you'd see WV is still very blue compared to a red state like North Carolina. You must just be referring to Bush's 2004 win, and of course they're not going to be as enthused about a black president as a state like CA ...WV is a dixiecrat state just like someone already said.
    West Virginians are progressive when it come to economics, which is probably why it is one of the poorer states. And the other poor states, like Mississippi and New Mexico, can blame their poverty on large numbers of poor blacks and Hispanics, West Virgina is nearly all white. West Virginians are socially and racially conservative, that is why Republicans usually carry it in presidential races and why Obama has basically conceded the the to Romney.

  2. #22
    The Mountain Man D_Sheetz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2012
    Last Online
    04-04-2014 @ 12:32 PM
    Location
    Chicagoland Area
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Germanic w/ Celtic & Roman influence
    Ethnicity
    American circa 1732
    Ancestry
    Germania
    Country
    United States
    Region
    Illinois
    Taxonomy
    Atlantid-Norid
    Politics
    Moderate
    Religion
    Christian
    Age
    21
    Gender
    Posts
    345
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 3
    Given: 1

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Marmie Dearest View Post
    What the...I don't even...you know the Civil War was about things like money and land and railroads,right? It wasnt just about black slavery, in fact some historians would argue that it was actually a minor point tacked on later.

    You're not even from the States it appears, so you wouldn't understand, especially not being from West Virginia. Because I am, and an important thing to understand is that West Virginia is even culturally and geographically different from Virginia. Its extremely mountainous and the only state in the country that is entirely within the Appalchian mountain range. Its a different landscape and history than Virginia, and if you didn't know this, there were other states that originally were connected, like Tennessee was part of the Carolinas.

    And now WV is vastly politically different, being more liberal than VA.

    So you don't know that of which you speak, you just seem annoyed that there is a Virginia and West Virginia, but there are reasons for that. Boo hoo to you if you're just mad you don't like to memorize all 50 states.

    It amazes me sometimes what people DON'T KNOW about the American South, yet feel so freeeeee to talk about it as though they do.
    I couldn't have said it better, both sides of my family are from West Virginia and one side even had influence on West Virginia becoming a state..so no West Virginia and Virginia should no be rejoined for numerous reasons, most importantly because West Virginians are WEST Virginians not Virginians..if you asked this question face to face to a West Virginian or even a Virginian you'd better run for the hills..
    Ich kommen von östlich des Rheins!

  3. #23
    Foul race mixing extraterrestrial Xenomorph's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2012
    Last Online
    04-28-2015 @ 06:08 AM
    Location
    Alexandria, VA
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Celtic, Germanic
    Ethnicity
    About two-thirds Irish, one-third German, a little Austrian, a little French, a little Italian
    Ancestry
    Ireland, probably somewhere around Dublin; Bavaria in Germany; somewhere in Austria, somewhere in Fr
    Country
    United States
    Region
    Virginia
    Taxonomy
    Celtic, Germanic (Irish and Bavarian)
    Politics
    Alternative
    Religion
    Roman Catholicism
    Age
    25
    Gender
    Posts
    1,029
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 150
    Given: 199

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    No, they'd probably end up being a drag on the VA economy.


    Rollin' like a super sonic
    Another fool that gets down on it

    Values, culture, language, not race.

  4. #24
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jul 2011
    Last Online
    01-24-2015 @ 08:49 PM
    Location
    Gliese 581 c
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Germanic
    Ethnicity
    Anglo-American
    Ancestry
    England, Scotland, Netherlands
    Politics
    Right
    Religion
    whatever
    Gender
    Posts
    4,014
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 66
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Great Dane View Post
    West Virginians are progressive when it come to economics, which is probably why it is one of the poorer states. And the other poor states, like Mississippi and New Mexico, can blame their poverty on large numbers of poor blacks and Hispanics, West Virgina is nearly all white. West Virginians are socially and racially conservative, that is why Republicans usually carry it in presidential races and why Obama has basically conceded the the to Romney.
    Yes, social issues have trumped economic ones there lately.

    The issue that killed liberals in that state, at least in Presidential elections, was gun control. Same thing in Kentucky. Clinton carried both states in '92 and '96, but a Democratic Presidential candidate hasn't won in either since. And over the years conservatives have strengthened their hold on those two states according to polling data. Senator Manchin is the most conservative Democrat in the US Senate and Kentuckians elected a Tea Party candidate in Rand Paul. There were rumors Manchin was considering switching parties.

  5. #25
    Favored by those with impeccable taste Supreme American's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2011
    Last Online
    12-27-2012 @ 04:11 PM
    Location
    Base of the Rockies
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Germanic
    Ethnicity
    German & Colonial American
    Country
    United States
    Region
    Colorado
    Taxonomy
    Kraut
    Politics
    Plenty
    Religion
    Agnostic
    Age
    6
    Gender
    Posts
    6,015
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 93
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    West Virginia is about 96% white, and Virginia is full of blacks. Perhaps there is a mystique about W Va. that keeps the blacks out, such as the demography, that they feel unwelcome.

    There are also laws in both states unique to both states, to their liking. Eastern Colorado used to be part of Kansas, but there is no desire to reunite the two, though there has been a movement among western Kansans to have their section either made a separate state or annexed into Colorado.

  6. #26
    Favored by those with impeccable taste Supreme American's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2011
    Last Online
    12-27-2012 @ 04:11 PM
    Location
    Base of the Rockies
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Germanic
    Ethnicity
    German & Colonial American
    Country
    United States
    Region
    Colorado
    Taxonomy
    Kraut
    Politics
    Plenty
    Religion
    Agnostic
    Age
    6
    Gender
    Posts
    6,015
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 93
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Xenomorph View Post
    No, they'd probably end up being a drag on the VA economy.
    Except Virginia is the one full of niggers.

  7. #27
    Favored by those with impeccable taste Supreme American's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2011
    Last Online
    12-27-2012 @ 04:11 PM
    Location
    Base of the Rockies
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Germanic
    Ethnicity
    German & Colonial American
    Country
    United States
    Region
    Colorado
    Taxonomy
    Kraut
    Politics
    Plenty
    Religion
    Agnostic
    Age
    6
    Gender
    Posts
    6,015
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 93
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by D_Sheetz View Post
    I couldn't have said it better, both sides of my family are from West Virginia and one side even had influence on West Virginia becoming a state..so no West Virginia and Virginia should no be rejoined for numerous reasons, most importantly because West Virginians are WEST Virginians not Virginians..if you asked this question face to face to a West Virginian or even a Virginian you'd better run for the hills..
    I have some paternal ancestors who migrated to W. Va. One direct ancestor was hanged in public there in 1797 and another who was a sibling of an ancestor was hanged there as well. I think in his case he was one of the last 2 public executions ever held in the state. After that, my ancestors hopped the border into Ohio.

  8. #28
    Foul race mixing extraterrestrial Xenomorph's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2012
    Last Online
    04-28-2015 @ 06:08 AM
    Location
    Alexandria, VA
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Celtic, Germanic
    Ethnicity
    About two-thirds Irish, one-third German, a little Austrian, a little French, a little Italian
    Ancestry
    Ireland, probably somewhere around Dublin; Bavaria in Germany; somewhere in Austria, somewhere in Fr
    Country
    United States
    Region
    Virginia
    Taxonomy
    Celtic, Germanic (Irish and Bavarian)
    Politics
    Alternative
    Religion
    Roman Catholicism
    Age
    25
    Gender
    Posts
    1,029
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 150
    Given: 199

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Supreme American View Post
    Except Virginia is the one full of niggers.
    And yet for some reason, West Virginia has a much more stagnant economy.


    Rollin' like a super sonic
    Another fool that gets down on it

    Values, culture, language, not race.

  9. #29
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jun 2012
    Last Online
    @
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Done
    Ethnicity
    Gone
    Gender
    Posts
    1,054
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 15
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    It would make more sense for southwestern Virginia to join West Virginia due to King Coal, and 49 states just don't cut it for me. I was born in northeastern Tennessee, and I have relatives in both northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia, so I know the area well. The western part of the state is worlds apart from the eastern part of the state. If memory serves, southwestern Virginians were rejected by West Virginians in their bid to join them when they seceded from the state.

  10. #30
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jun 2012
    Last Online
    @
    Meta-Ethnicity
    Done
    Ethnicity
    Gone
    Gender
    Posts
    1,054
    Thumbs Up
    Received: 15
    Given: 0

    0 Not allowed!

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Great Dane View Post
    West Virginians are progressive when it come to economics, which is probably why it is one of the poorer states. And the other poor states, like Mississippi and New Mexico, can blame their poverty on large numbers of poor blacks and Hispanics, West Virgina is nearly all white. West Virginians are socially and racially conservative, that is why Republicans usually carry it in presidential races and why Obama has basically conceded the the to Romney.
    The Obama administration is not a big fan of coal, so that plays a role too. My guess is that the state lags behind because of problems with its economy and education. As for the presidential race, it wouldn't be shocking to see Manchin endorse Romney. He's a Democrat governor, but he has to look out for the interests of his constituency.

Page 3 of 4 FirstFirst 1234 LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Similar Threads

  1. Virginia school district reposts 10 commandments
    By Thorum in forum Law & Concepts
    Replies: 6
    Last Post: 03-13-2011, 06:22 AM
  2. Virginia - Past Is Prologue, 1970s
    By The Lawspeaker in forum History
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 09-10-2010, 03:00 PM
  3. Replies: 0
    Last Post: 07-14-2009, 09:12 PM
  4. Replies: 4
    Last Post: 07-03-2009, 07:07 PM
  5. `Civil War` In Virginia
    By Oresai in forum United States
    Replies: 4
    Last Post: 04-15-2009, 07:40 AM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •