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| | Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on West Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the American Civil War and was admitted to the Union as a separate state on June 20, 1863. |
 | | Although West Virginia's first constitution provided for the assumption of a part of the Virginia debt, negotiations opened by Virginia in 1870 were fruitless, and in 1871, that state funded two-thirds of the debt and arbitrarily assigned the remainder to West Virginia. |
 | | As of 2005, West Virginia has an estimated population of 1,816,856, which is an increase of 4,308, or 0.2%, from the prior year and an increase of 8,506, or 0.5%, since the year 2000. |
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