West Virginia and Virginia reunited?

Is it possible that West Virginia and Virginia could have reuinted into just Virginia again? What would have needed to happen for this to occur; or is this ASB?
 
nah, I hear that Virgians don't really consider themselves same people anymore. The long division is too deep, arbitrary line separated too many families and friends. Still, with recent thaw in relations between North and South Dakotas there is still some hope that soemthing simialr might happen there as well.

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Can't see how or why. IMHO the only possible times would have been right after the ACW if the WV administration had been extended over all of Virginia proper, or at the end of Reconstruction where returning Virginia to civilian rule included remerging it

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Grey Wolf
 
I think there were too many cultural and political differences for reunification to happen. Most of what became West Virginia was pro-Union.
 
Plus, of course, it's doubtful that the people of either state would want to reduce their representation in the United States Senate.
 

Xen

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Can't see how or why. IMHO the only possible times would have been right after the ACW if the WV administration had been extended over all of Virginia proper, or at the end of Reconstruction where returning Virginia to civilian rule included remerging it

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Grey Wolf

Exactly! Things are very different in WV than they are in Va. As been said to the cultural differences are too vast as well, just driving through both states is enough to let you see the differences in them.
 
When coal becomes less important or is replaced and the WV economy hits the tank, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some talk of reunification. The legal and poltiical hurdles (and I guess social and cultural but when we talk about West Virginians and Virginians its not like were talking Pakistanis-Indians) would be alot to overcome though.
 

NomadicSky

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When coal becomes less important or is replaced and the WV economy hits the tank, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some talk of reunification. The legal and poltiical hurdles (and I guess social and cultural but when we talk about West Virginians and Virginians its not like were talking Pakistanis-Indians) would be alot to overcome though.

States merging is that legal? Or doable anyways.
 
It's very, very, very unlikely for any two states to merge.

Between them, the states would have four senators, two governors, two lieutenant governors, two speakers of state houses, two speakers of state senates, dozens of statewide elected officials(AGs, secs. of state, insurance commisioners, etc.), state supreme court justices, dozens of agency heads, many dozens of agency sub-heads, two of each single position state employees (How many people regulate health codes for the cosmetic permanent makeup industry? I'm guessing one person in each state.), heads and officers of unions that represent state employees and teachers, and all the ancillary personnell thereof, from the secretaries in the Governors' offcies to the people who make the meals in the state capitols' cafeterias.

That's a whole lot of people facing possible redundancy. And a whole lot of very powerful people who will oppose combining any two states, no matter how laughably low of a population or land area they have.
 
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