How can anyone say West Virginia isn't southern?

I have lived all over West Virginia. We are really the border state; not quite south and not quite north. Even to do this day, West Virginian is a unique accent, even from the south. The mentality and culture is different from any other southern state, but it is not like any northern state either. read more

West Virginia was never a big slave state, and there was bad blood between the western region and the rest of Virginia even before the Civil War. West Virginia was not plantations, farms, and slaves. West Virginia was mines, factories and mountaineers. read more

It should have made clear that state regulations in New York and Virginia require drillers to lease a certain percentage of the acreage in a drilling unit before forced pooling or compulsory integration can occur, rather than a percentage of the landowners. read more