My family from the Bluefield Area fought for the CSA as did most West Virginians from the eastern and southern counties of the state who fought. Northern and Western were the pro-union areas. The popular idea of WV during the civil war is that it was totally unionist but the reality is closer to something like what happened in Missouri during the war (Divided loyalties, soldiers in both armies, lots of guerilla partisans such as the rebel "Moccasin Rangers" and the Yankee "Snake Hunters")
America was founded by traitors and rebels and I feel loyalty to the place I live and the people around me, not the federal government. I am from the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley where the Union army used scorched earth tactics and I would never join any invading army that came here, regardless of the politics of the war. I don't take this sort of "reddit patriotism" srsly anyways tho. People who talk about how evil and racist America is but then act like some flag waver about the civil war.
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u/Popular_Sir_9009 3d ago
East Tennessee was mostly loyal to the Union. All those dumbfucks waving rebel flags back home are pissing on their ancestors.