Tiger1983
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
Bottom three estimated population (2024)
Alaska 733,000
Vermont 648,000
Wyoming 587,618
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JMUDunk
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
Hunh,
Have Snowshoe toss in a 10 pack of lifetime passes and I'd consider it.
Gotta look out for the Chillin's and all.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-10-2025 04:09 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: (11-10-2025 08:17 AM)andybible1995 Wrote: No statehood for DC. Give the Maryland part of DC back to the state of Maryland. Yes it will be a blue stronghold, but it will finally give the voters representation in Congress.
Mixed feelings on that. It would mean 2 fewer automatic electoral votes for the Democrats in every presidential election, and 1 more automatic vote in the House of Representatives. So, there’s that.
At the same time, the sort of anti-crime measures Trump initiated within DC this summer would’ve been much MUCH more difficult if that territory was part of Maryland and he needed to get the cooperation of the Governor of Maryland.
I have no mixed feelings. Its entirely logical. The idea of needing a district is so 1700s.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-10-2025 04:38 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: Alaska 733,000
Vermont 648,000
Wyoming 587,618
So Libertarian, Socialist and Rock solid Conservative.
Vermont at one time was rock ribbed Republican.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-10-2025 05:09 PM)bullet Wrote: (11-10-2025 04:38 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: Alaska 733,000
Vermont 648,000
Wyoming 587,618
So Libertarian, Socialist and Rock solid Conservative.
Which one is Libertarian?
Quote:Vermont at one time was rock ribbed Republican.
Even rejected FDR all 4 times.
The people who live in Vermont now would probably reject FDR as a right wing extremist if he ran on the same platform today that he did way back when.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
I thought I saw Eastern Washington still trying to merge into Idaho lately.
My opinion is these kinds of things just make the state Republican Parties look dumb b/c it's not going to go anywhere
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2025 06:01 PM by Bronco'14.)
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-10-2025 04:38 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote: Bottom three estimated population (2024)
Alaska 733,000
Vermont 648,000
Wyoming 587,618
To put that in perspective, tiny little Rhode Island has 1.12M.
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rath v2.0
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-10-2025 06:01 PM)Bronco14 Wrote: I thought I saw Eastern Washington still trying to merge into Idaho lately.
My opinion is these kinds of things just make the state Republican Parties look dumb b/c it's not going to go anywhere
Yep. No chance any portion of a state is merging with a neighboring state when there are citizens who would oppose it. Courts would never allow it. Just a waste of time and effort that could be better allocated elsewhere.
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DaSaintFan
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-10-2025 12:08 AM)chargeradio Wrote: West Virginia state senator wants to add 3 counties from Maryland and 27 from Virginia:
https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/...-virginia/
Approximately 800,000 people live in the counties mentioned, so West Virginia would likely pick up an extra seat in the House of Representatives.
It'll probably go down the same route as the proposed state of "Western Oregon" or "Northern california". (you know it's bad when you just want to break away from your state and not join any others...)
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chargeradio
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-11-2025 05:35 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote: (11-10-2025 12:08 AM)chargeradio Wrote: West Virginia state senator wants to add 3 counties from Maryland and 27 from Virginia:
https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/...-virginia/
Approximately 800,000 people live in the counties mentioned, so West Virginia would likely pick up an extra seat in the House of Representatives.
It'll probably go down the same route as the proposed state of "Western Oregon" or "Northern california". (you know it's bad when you just want to break away from your state and not join any others...)
So "Central Virginia"?
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-10-2025 06:45 AM)andybible1995 Wrote: (11-10-2025 05:57 AM)hburg Wrote: (11-10-2025 12:08 AM)chargeradio Wrote: West Virginia state senator wants to add 3 counties from Maryland and 27 from Virginia:
https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/...-virginia/
Approximately 800,000 people live in the counties mentioned, so West Virginia would likely pick up an extra seat in the House of Representatives.
VA elected...A woman Governor who won't even protect her own daughters, a woman Lt. Governor who is a political Muslim similar to Mandami, and an Attorney General who wants to murder his opponents.
I'm not blaming you hburg, but Virginia as a whole deserves four years or more of misery from these people.
As for the governor herself not wanting to protect her daughters from a tranny, as the old saying goes, hurt people hurt people.
If the counties invited want to leave for WVA then go for it. Makes for fewer counties that NoVA has to support. I doubt they will though considering said support and the fact that every county but 4 moved left since the 2021 state elections and the 2024 presidential elections.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
I, for one, did not vote for this, and the elections of several years ago for Youngkin, Sears, and Miyares (RINO) was the rare exception in my voting history to actually get what I wanted.
Redistricting screwed me out of getting more time from Randy Forbes, for whom I fully supported. That f'ing sucked.
Spanberger is a radical. Dudes in chick's locker rooms is not cool, and she voted with Pelosi over 90% of the time.
I likely hold more in common with WV voters than NOVA voters, so I would vote to let that happen.
I loathe the fact that NOVA controls my vote, and I loathe that Chesterfield was blue in the most recent election. That is due to the virtue-signaling white suburban women that are looking for a cause to improve their miserable upper middle-class lives.
Youngkin was not bad, but he and his admin were not better than the filth brought about by Northum and his crew. And the RVA and WDC media (particularly NBC) media is filthfully biased.
If my new state is WV, then so be it. At least my vote will represent my interests and priorities. With Trump bringing so much positive chance, I would like to benefit from such reforms, and VA is so blue in the cities, supporting filth policies and police leniency. Not my cup of tea.
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AdoptedMonarch
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
This obviously doesn't happen in actuality, but if we are going to play "What If?" on Virginia breaking up as a state, my vote for the southeastern Virginia cities/counties would be to join North Carolina.
They may not want us. But they should. North Carolina lacks any kind of real port. Just a lot of shallow inlets suitable only for modern-day pretend pirates.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-14-2025 12:42 AM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote: (11-10-2025 06:45 AM)andybible1995 Wrote: (11-10-2025 05:57 AM)hburg Wrote: (11-10-2025 12:08 AM)chargeradio Wrote: West Virginia state senator wants to add 3 counties from Maryland and 27 from Virginia:
https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/...-virginia/
Approximately 800,000 people live in the counties mentioned, so West Virginia would likely pick up an extra seat in the House of Representatives.
VA elected...A woman Governor who won't even protect her own daughters, a woman Lt. Governor who is a political Muslim similar to Mandami, and an Attorney General who wants to murder his opponents.
I'm not blaming you hburg, but Virginia as a whole deserves four years or more of misery from these people.
As for the governor herself not wanting to protect her daughters from a tranny, as the old saying goes, hurt people hurt people.
If the counties invited want to leave for WVA then go for it. Makes for fewer counties that NoVA has to support. I doubt they will though considering said support and the fact that every county but 4 moved left since the 2021 state elections and the 2024 presidential elections.
Most of wish NOVA would maybe join MD? NOVA is like a totally different state than the rest of VA.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-10-2025 03:16 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: (11-10-2025 01:55 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote: (11-10-2025 12:59 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: While we're at it. We don't need 2 Dakotas either.
Huh?
In that case don't need both New Hampshire and Vermont. More people live in the Dakotas than those two states.
Fine, but no, there aren't.
NH = 1.4M
VT = 650k
ND = 800k
SD = 930k
They are addicted to being wrong its amazing.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
As a proud Marylander, I say we take the three easternmost counties of WV. Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson Counties are just a short drive from DC and are statistically part of the metro region anyway.
If we don't have the votes in those counties, we can launch a special military operation and send in a bunch of liberals equipped with Old Bay and blue crab mallets. They will be gentrified weather they like it or not!
Once we're done with WV, we will set our sights upon the Delmarva Peninsula. Delaware can keep Wilmington, but the remainder of the eastern shore (including the Virginia portion) will become part of Greater Maryland.
Crabcakes, football, and conquest... That's what Maryland does!
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ODU BBALL
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-14-2025 09:32 AM)Roxie Wrote: (11-10-2025 03:16 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: (11-10-2025 01:55 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote: (11-10-2025 12:59 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: While we're at it. We don't need 2 Dakotas either.
Huh?
In that case don't need both New Hampshire and Vermont. More people live in the Dakotas than those two states.
Fine, but no, there aren't.
NH = 1.4M
VT = 650k
ND = 800k
SD = 930k
They are addicted to being wrong its amazing.
LOL. That's rich coming from the radical left.
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ODU BBALL
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
Since we're fantasizing about moving parts of states around, why not just have West Virginia reunite with Virginia like it was before the Civil War? I suspect that would return Virginia to being a solid red state.
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RE: Virginia, Maryland counties invited to join West Virginia
(11-14-2025 11:35 AM)ODU BBALL Wrote: Since we're fantasizing about moving parts of states around, why not just have West Virginia reunite with Virginia like it was before the Civil War? I suspect that would return Virginia to being a solid red state.
I'm down with that.
I'll take it a step further.
Merge the Carolinas and Dakotas together as well.
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