Virginia was a sovereign state before 1788, going back to its founding as a proprietary colony in 1608. The states now known as Kentucky and West Virginia were originally part of Virginia, but Kentucky entered the Union in 1792 as the 15th state, and West Virginia was formed out of Virginia during the secession period of the US Civil War in 1863.
Virginia is generally considered a Southern state; it was part of the Confederacy.
Virginia was the state that is considered to be part of the old south.
Maryland- although part of West Virginia and Kentucky is North of part of Virginia.
The whole of Virginia seceded. Then the mountainous Northwestern part of the state seceded from Virginia, and declared a new state of the Union, West Virginia.
Jackson was born and raised in Virginia, in a part of the state that became West Virginia in 1863, when the western part of Virginia seceded from Virginia to become West Virginia.
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West Virginia
West Virginia was, of course, part of the Virginia territory. When the territory became a state, West Virginia was still a part of the state of Virginia. West Virginia became its own state on June 20, 1863.
West Virginia ceceded from Virginia and became a state in 1863
Before the Civil War, the state of West Virginia was part of Virginia. Unionists did not support the Confederacy and established West Virginia in 1863.
West Virginia was not a state at the time. It was a part of Virginia.
West Virginia