Quick trivia tidbit.

one1 · #1 12-30-2013, 08:04 AM

Can someone name the only State to be Created during the Civil War.No searching allowed.

finnbow · #2 12-30-2013, 08:29 AM

West Virginia.

one1 · #3 12-30-2013, 08:42 AM

Correct But Some Conflicting that Puts Nevada I their also.
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/23/194745...n-of-civil-war

one1 · #4 12-30-2013, 08:44 AM

Nevada
http://www.nps.gov/cwindepth/StateByState/Nevada.html

BlueStreak · #5 12-30-2013, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by finnbow

West Virginia.

And, that always kills me. Virtually every person I've met from W.Va., and that's a LOT of them because of where I grew up, considered their state to have been Confederate. I remember when I was a kid in Ohio and we had all of these W.Va yahoos running around with their Rebel paraphenalia, flags, belt buckles and what-not. I didn't understand just how odd it was until my Dad explained it to me.

Dave

one1 · #6 12-30-2013, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

And, that always kills me. Virtually every person I've met from W.Va., and that's a LOT of them because of where I grew up, considered their state to have been Confederate. I remember when I was a kid in Ohio and we had all of these W.Va yahoos running around with their Rebel paraphenalia, flags, belt buckles and what-not. I didn't understand just how odd it was until my Dad explained it to me.

Dave

That confederate Banner sure produced a lot of mixed emotions during the call to take it down form stare flagpoles.I think it was the better though.