Should West Virginia see reunification with Virginia proper?

[Siberyak]

Why not just reunite North and South Carolina?

[Contra Mundum]

And yet for some reason, West Virginia has a much more stagnant economy.

Rugged terrain, sparsely populated and isolated.

Virginia has more blacks because of the old plantations that used slave labor in the Shenandoah Valley and coastal plains. It had a very large slave population. There were very few slaves in WV. The mountainous terrain made large scale agriculture impossible.

[Great Dane]

Rugged terrain, sparsely populated and isolated.

More economically advanced states, like Arizona and Nevada, are less sparsely populated. West Virginia is actually in between the densely populated Atlantic Seaboard, Great Lakes and Ohio Valley with good rail and highway links and access to the Ohio River.





It is no more rugged then Pennsylvania.

[Xenomorph]

Rugged terrain, sparsely populated and isolated.

Virginia has more blacks because of the old plantations that used slave labor in the Shenandoah Valley and coastal plains. It had a very large slave population. There were very few slaves in WV. The mountainous terrain made large scale agriculture impossible.

I wouldn't dispute any of this. Still, West Virginia could have made money other ways.