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How West Virginia Defied Virginia to Become a State
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The State That Seceded From a SecessionA state decided to leave the Union.So one of its counties decided to leave the state.The people of western Virginia were farmers and miners. They had no slaves. They had no plantations. They had nothing in common with the wealthy eastern Virginians who had just voted to join the Confederacy.So they held their own vote.Then they held another one.Then they wrote their own constitution, elected their own governor, and sent a request to Washington.Abraham Lincoln said yes.There was just one problem. The U.S. Constitution says you cannot create a new state from an existing
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