Fate of West Virginia in a CS Victory?

Burnedcouchia?

Even today you can sense the cultural differences in north/south WV. The north has a definite rust belt/coal mining feel while the southern part of the state seems to bring the twang. I lived there for two years (from PA) and felt right at home in the north of the state.
 
LOL, I noticed that too. BTW, Kentucky kinda reminds me of Austria......they even look somewhat similar themselves!

Hmm...so Kentucky would in theory not be held by the CSA at first (to keep the parallel going) and would later be the target of an Anschluss......;)
 

Anaxagoras

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Why would the CSA even WANT to keep West Virginia? As far as Richmond would have been concerned, they were a bunch of trouble-makers the CSA would just as well have done without.

More likely, they would have pushed for keeping West Virginia at the negotiating table, but only as a ambit claim which they would later drop in exchange for Northern concessions on other issues.
 
Why would the CSA even WANT to keep West Virginia? As far as Richmond would have been concerned, they were a bunch of trouble-makers the CSA would just as well have done without.

More likely, they would have pushed for keeping West Virginia at the negotiating table, but only as a ambit claim which they would later drop in exchange for Northern concessions on other issues.

Not a chance. In OTL VA didn't recognize WV until 1971 according to someone on this board. It certainly kicked up a fuss about it at the time. That is why they sent RE Lee there right away.
 
Why would the CSA even WANT to keep West Virginia? As far as Richmond would have been concerned, they were a bunch of trouble-makers the CSA would just as well have done without.

More likely, they would have pushed for keeping West Virginia at the negotiating table, but only as a ambit claim which they would later drop in exchange for Northern concessions on other issues.

Hmm...this makes the most sense to me, assuming whoever the CSA has to negotiate the peace is at all intelligent (and Confederate civilian leaders, for the most part, seemed to lack that). But bluffing like that and getting something elsewhere seems like a better plan.

Its not that I thought / wanted the CSA would keep WV, it just kind of bugged me the arbitrary manner in which most TL's or books I've seen have treated it, as in just throwing it in there with OTL borders without any further thought
 
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