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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 462510" data-attributes="member: 2020">Good stuff.  I hope more is coming!  I can tell you why there is no East Virginia in America.  Virginia was one of the 13 original states of the United States of America.  When the breakup of the United States began in 1860, with the succession of the state of South Carolina, the people of Virginia were very divided on the matter.  Some wanted to join the new country in the south, known as the Confederacy.  Others wanted to remain in the old United States in the north, now known as the Union.  Finally, Virginia voted to succeed from the United States and join the Confederacy.  However, many of the counties (the next governmental level down from the state level, in our country) in the western and northern parts of the state refused to go along, and defied the state government in the city of Richmond.  At some point, either during the subsequent Civil War of 1861 to 1865, or soon after the war ended, Congress made these counties into a new state, and this new state was West Virginia.  It is worth noting that West Virginia and Virginia, today, have very different cultures and even their climates are very different.  West Virginia is mostly mountainous (low mountains, not high mountains), with hot summers and cold winters (very extremely heavy snows are common there.)  Virginia covers the eastern mountains, the foothills, and the coastal plain.  Warm chinooks flow down into Virginia from the mountains.  Summers are long and hot (highs around 33 Celsius, lows around 22 Celsius), and winters are cool, with a mixture of rain and snow.  Although both states are close to what we Americans sometimes call the Megapolis (the Washington to Boston corridor of 100 million people), and indeed Virginia borders our national capital city, both Virginia and West Virginia are primarily rural.</blockquote>

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