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Originally Posted by Manitopiaaa
It's a symbolic factoid. All the Southwest Virginia politicians are trying to use their distance from Richmond to showcase how they are essentially being 'ruled from distant lands.'
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sure, but it doesn't necessarily have to be about where the state capital is.
some of the more extreme right-wing downstate illinois politicians frequently whine about wanting to secede as well, and they
already freaking have the state capital down there!
it's the great big evil and liberal (same difference in their eyes) chicagoland that they wish to secede from.
so it's not so much about state capitals as it is about power. in downstate illinois, much like i would imagine it is in SW viriginia, it's the sense of political impotence against much bigger, and extremely bluer, urban centers that fuels the secession drive among the ruby red rural folks.