Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 4 months agoVirginia is shrinking!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1432arrow-down18
arrow-up1424arrow-down1imageVirginia is shrinking!lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squareColonel Panic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 months agoI still don’t understand why they named West Virginia so. Virginia has land further West. North Virginia?
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoHistorical context makes it even weirder. The split was because WV allied with the North in the Civil War, North Virginia makes infinitely more sense in more ways than one.
minus-squareColonel Panic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThat really does. But humans aren’t particularly great at naming things sometimes.
minus-squarelseif@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 months agothe nucleus of Virginia Proper is further east
minus-squareColonel Panic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoWhere is the mitochondria of Virginia though?
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWestern Virginia doesn’t matter.
I still don’t understand why they named West Virginia so. Virginia has land further West. North Virginia?
Historical context makes it even weirder. The split was because WV allied with the North in the Civil War, North Virginia makes infinitely more sense in more ways than one.
That really does. But humans aren’t particularly great at naming things sometimes.
the nucleus of Virginia Proper is further east
Where is the mitochondria of Virginia though?
Western Virginia doesn’t matter.