Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 months agoVirginia is shrinking!lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1421arrow-down18
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minus-squareColonel Panic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 months agoI still don’t understand why they named West Virginia so. Virginia has land further West. North Virginia?
minus-squarelseif@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agothe nucleus of Virginia Proper is further east
minus-squareColonel Panic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoWhere is the mitochondria of Virginia though?
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoWestern Virginia doesn’t matter.
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 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-up2·5 months agoThat really does. But humans aren’t particularly great at naming things sometimes.
I still don’t understand why they named West Virginia so. Virginia has land further West. North Virginia?
the nucleus of Virginia Proper is further east
Where is the mitochondria of Virginia though?
Western Virginia doesn’t matter.
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.