• ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world
    83·
    2 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.zipEnglish
      311·
      2 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
        31·
        2 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.

        • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
          17·
          2 months ago

          kind of strange, the older i get (40smthg now), the less respect i have for people 20+ years older than me, and the more i have for 20+ years younger

          • dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            7·
            2 months ago

            I’m older but in the same boat. Unless those younger people are part of proud technological illiterati, which really pisses me off for some reason. Probably those 30 years of being an IT drone…

    • BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 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
        21·
        2 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
      5·
      2 months ago

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

      Edit: was supposed to be a comment on the main post, fat fingered it, my bad

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    10·
    2 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.idEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

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

  • Colonel Panic@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

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

  • Raab@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 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
      4·
      2 months ago

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

      • Raab@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 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

          • Raab@lemmy.world
            41·
            2 months ago

            I won’t go into detail but the state, people, and family are, let’s just say, sub par compared to Wisconsin.

              • Raab@lemmy.world
                5·
                2 months ago

                Lol I can see that. Let me persuade you. “Put ‘er there bud, let’s go out for a fuckin’ rip on da lake and then cook up some brats on da grill afterwards, and by gosh don’t forget to tell yer folks I says hi when you see dem at Sunday mass!”

                • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
                  4·
                  2 months ago

                  You’re missing at least one, but preferably multiple “Don’tChaKnow”. I grew up watching Bobbys World. If that show taught me anything about Wisconsin, it’s that the moms use “Don’tChaKnow” as often as Hulk Hogan uses “Brother”

  • Scribbd@feddit.nl
    6·
    2 months ago

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

  • stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I wonder what the source is because in 1784, Connecticut made claims on the northeast 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.