What happened to West Virginia and Virginia

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

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It's kind of funny that while West Virginia became a state due to left-wing causes (staying in Union/abolishing slavery), Virginia got its current borders due to right-wing causes (Confederacy). Now they're switched.
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Heh heh heh.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

What should be noted is that, of the two Republican Governors the state had between like 1950 & 2000, Cecil Underwood was a desegregator and Arch A. Moore was liberal compared to the national party (by my recollection). Moreover, the state's had Jay Fricking Rockefeller as its Senator. Sure, not a Republican, but someone decently liberal. Hopefully that can put WV's transformation into fuller context.