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Think about it! The southern part of the state is based on tradition and pride, while the northern is all DC. The people in Virginia are too independent to be similar.
And even though West Virginia, and Kentucky broke away, they are two completely different worlds. For example, WV has a southern flare, but was always more suited for northern life, because of its landscape, industry, and personality.
I'm from WV, and I can tell U it isn't anything like Va.
Yeah your right Virginia is ten times better than WV
The south-western part is similair to eastern Tennessee/ West Virginia. The north-western part is like West Virginia and some of western Maryland. South central like Danville is similair to the Carolina's. Northern Virginia and the Hampton Roads remind me of New Jersey. Except the Hampton roads and a few counties over have the weird cypress swamps like in the Carolina's.
Kentucky, especially since it was once part of Virginia and even today as a part of our state Constitution: Kentucky since it was once a county of Virginia and even still as part of the Kentucky Constitution:
General laws of Virginia in force in this State until repealed.
All laws which, on the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety- two, were in force in the State of Virginia, and which are of a general nature and not local to that State, and not repugnant to this Constitution, nor to the laws which have been enacted by the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, shall be in force within this State until they shall be altered or repealed by the General Assembly.
Text as Ratified on: August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891.
History: Not yet amended.
Colonially, SC and VA were sister states, but now I think NC is the closest match to VA in terms of geography (mountains, Piedmont, coastal plain) and population distribution (each has three metro areas of 1 million+). Tobacco was historically the cash crop for each state. In terms of the economies of the states today, the Triangle and NoVA have some overlap with R&D companies (although the Triangle has more biotech and NoVA has much more federal government jobs), Richmond and Charlotte each have a good number of F500 companies in their metro areas, and the local economies of both Fayetteville and Hampton Roads are heavily reliant on the military. The Charlottesville/Chapel Hill comparison should be obvious. You've got the port cities of Norfolk and Wilmington (although Norfolk's port is significantly larger than Wilmington's). Roanoke and Asheville are mountain metros around the same size. Some parts of New Bern could pass for Jamestown, Williamsburg, or Fredericksburg. And so on...
The vast majority of Virginia is Southern, in terms of geography, but Northern Virginia (which has about 1/5 of the states pop.) has Northern influences from Maryland and DC. About the election, McDonnell is beating Deeds up at the polls, and Democrats have low turnout.
NOVA has a third of all people in the state, a fifth would be more like Fairfax plus Prince William.
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