Virginia is shrinking!
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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.