Talk:West Virginia

From RationalWiki
Jump to: navigation, search


Pictures

While I get the humor of showing South and North Korea, many people will not get the joke. Something like this might work better. There ARE people, especially low-end desk-workers in Washington D.C. who think that we are the same fucking state http://www.unhelpful.org/r33t/virginias.jpg

[edit] The purpose of West Virginia siding with the union

The reason that west Virginia wanted to stay with the union is actually known. As West Virginia has always (save these last few years) more liberal than Virginia, the abolitionist movement was stronger there. Many citizens of the western counties petitioned the state to allow them to choose to become a free state or a slave state. Naturally, Virginia repeatedly denied. The western counties decided to stay with the union partially over this, but more to a patriotic fervor type deal sadly.

[edit] Something needing removed

"Outsiders are often taken aback by the suspicious, easily riled, and apparently hostile nature of the locals. West Virginia is probably the source of the term "backwards" to mean uncultured, because to outsiders, people think and act opposite to how outsiders might instinctively think and act. But think of it this way: you'd automatically be suspicious too if your state had been treated for 100 years like some kind of colony. It's really not a bad place, and populated in general by not bad people. Now get lost, y'heah?"

Whoever wrote this has clearly never actually visited West Virginia, and this is not humor it's just slander, I suggest it be removed, or replaced with something that's actually funny.

Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Community
Tools
support