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West Virginia was once part of Virginia. When Virginia declared secession from the United States to become part of the Confederacy, the counties in northwestern Virginia voted to secede from Virginia and remain loyal to the United States. That area of Virginia became West Virginia. West Virginia became the 35th U.S. state on June 20, 1863.

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The first US state to secede from the United States was South Carolina. A convention on the question resulted in a vote on December 20, 1860 to leave the Union, other states in the deep south soon followed.

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