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Virginia and West Virginia: two states with basically the same name, existing right next to each other, but with completely independent state governments, laws and, today, even political leanings. But at one point, these two states were a single colony and then a single state simply called "Virginia." So how did West Virginia separate itself from its eastern neighbor? Well it all has to do with the geographic differences between the two which eventually spilled over into the U.S. Civil War.

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