(03-28-2014 08:58 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(03-28-2014 08:53 AM)AtlantaJag Wrote:  

(03-28-2014 08:51 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Virginia is a different south than the rest of the south.
http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations

Virginia is itself divided with two very different cultures. North and south Virginia might as well be in two separate regions.

Already partially took care of that in 1863.

The Rappanhannock River was the frontline for much of the Civil War and has been the border between the North and South ever since. My in-laws live in Fredericksburg, on that river half way between DC and Richmond and ground zero for much of the Civil War in the East. My father-in-law likes to joke that he lives in the DMZ between Virginia and Yankee occupied Northern Virginia.