Vorgeschlagene Annexion der Grafschaften Virginia und Maryland durch West Virginia. Unabhängige Städte in Virginia waren im Vorschlag von Senatorin Rose nicht enthalten, was dazu führt, dass "Inseln" von Virginia im erweiterten West Virginia.
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Maybe if we get Delaware and Virginia’s part of the shore
Why?
So, he wants to expand West Virginia to take over the most conservative areas of Virginia and Maryland, netting the state 2-3 more Congressional districts at the expense of those other states.
Why would any citizen in VA or MD want to join WV – $2k less education spending per student and joining a state with amongst the highest health insurance costs in the country.
WV is beautiful, but I genuinely cannot imagine wanting to be a citizen of the state.
Any map that lets Virginia keep the top of that peninsula gets a no from me
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As if Marylanders or Virginians would ever want to join one of the poorest states in the Union.
This is nonsense
West Virginian colonialism
Notice how the independent cities in Virginia are left as part of Virginia. I would imagine this is because the man proposing it has a fundamental lack of geography knowledge.
Not even giving up the cowlick, smh not serious
Insert meme of the dude facing two buttons.
Button 1: Do something/anything to improve the lives of West Virginians.
Button 2: Waste taxpayer money on a laughable proposal.
It’s like Greater Idaho, but with West Virginia.
this might be the worse map of all time
This is a land grab in response to election results. This would make me a resident of West Virginia which I do not support. If this nonsense ever gets actual recognition the state of Virginia should take action in court and in Congress.
Oddly enough, this would increase the average IQ of all three states.
why stop there. lets merge all rural areas into one mega state and leave all the cities as separate enclaves.
Pathetic as usual
Why don’t they unite in the Virgin Empire instead?
This looks like it would be good for West Virginia and that’s it.
I also love how he cut out certain cities to keep them in Virginia, lest we turn the new West Virginia into a purple state. Republicans can’t stop themselves from gerrymandering, even in their hypotheticals outside congressional redistricting. It’s as though fucking over people unlike them is their default mode of operation.
Well who wouldn’t want to be more like West VA? 🙄 /s
I don’t know why they waste their time with this stuff. You can’t change state boundaries or create new states from existing states without the approval of each state legislature and Congress. VA and MD aren’t going to agree to that. It’s all performative.
Instead of gerrymandering state boundaries, Republicans should try adopting more popular policies. But that isn’t going to happen.
I need Nelson included. Thanks.
regardless of what you think about reorganization of states, we should all agree that allowing those city-level enclaves to stay with Virginia looks awful and would probably not function great. If the whole point of reorganizing states is to streamline politics and cultural lines, then this would not aid in that.
I love that all the cities in the blue ridge somehow stay with Virginia
Can’t wait to live on Harrisonburg Island!
Virginia should simply press its old colonial claims and take half of America. Its only fair
This senator apparently forgot that independent cities exist and that they aren’t gonna be happy about being surrounded by another state
As a Virginian, honestly this would bode well for us. Most of those areas take considerably more than they give. If they leave it’s more money we can spend in places that actually generate said money.
Is Martinsville still in this Virginia?
I’d happily move to Hagerstown if this happened.
1. I don’t think many Marylanders or Virginians would go for that.
2. West Virginia can’t deal with the residents it has. It’s a shithole state right now. Why reward them for bad magement?
Make Virginia West Again?
Net negative tax outcome for West Virginia
It’d be a big loss for western Virginians as I’m guessing lot of eastern and north eastern VA subsidies the rest.
All this would do is guarantee Virginia is a solid blue state for the long-term
Those exclaves would be fun.
As well thought out as anything else WV politicians suggest, I guess.
Why not just lump Delaware into Maryland who can then join NJ thereby achieving a net 4 positive change in the senators. Right, Chris?
Tbh it wouldn’t change much in the grand scale of things.
WV would have a temporary population boost but it’d keep declining anyway, making it obsolete in a maximum of 20 years.
VA and MD would become INSANELY democratic,like a 70% in MD and 60% in VA.
I would join the march to treat West Virginia to a Sherman bonfire.
Notice how it’s always Republicans in places like Virginia and Oregon who whine about wanting to join neighboring red states rather than vice versa. Like why do I never St. Louis or El Paso Democrats wanting to join Illinois and New Mexico
Virginia could counter with an offer to take back the 8 counties of West Virginia who never cast a single vote to leave Virginia. Most of the counties gave a very low vote on leaving VA.
I’m from wv, I would like it if we joined Virginia
this would strengthen republican control at the cost of the state losing money. creating enclaves for blue areas only means that the land surrounding them will lose the money that they used to get from those blue areas. not to mention, the state government will have its budget stretched thinner because it will have to pay for new rural areas. this means either shittier government services or increased taxes. the state already is struggling to survive when its economy is just tourism and coal, and local corruption chops down alternative industries to coal