Please correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Virginia win a court case where West Virginia had to pay reparations to Virginia for its intrastate secession?
Don’t know— if so, then it was good for VA.
They avoided the later mineral rights cartel of the Rockefellers who still own most of underground WV. Everybody pays royalties to them (even the other Senator who is/was a lobbyist for coal... and yet stays a dem- amazing). That and pushed the lib gun agenda in a state where people have a long tradition of self-defense cause they need it). Jay Rockefeller whined about sequestration— because of the impact on airports air traffic control etc. Largely because his private massive estate in WV has an airstrip with NO traffic but him and his “lodge” guests and a full time Federal air traffic control person in the tower. For real. WV is a feudal state.