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 | | Its official name is the Commonwealth of Virginia; it is one of four (A world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another) Commonwealths out of the fifty United States. |
 | | Virginia is one of the states that (Click link for more info and facts about seceded) seceded from the Union to become the (The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861) Confederacy during the (A war between factions in the same country) Civil War. |
 | | The three largest Protestant denominations in Virginia: (Follower of Baptistic doctrines) Baptist (31% of the total state population), (A follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church) Methodist (13%), (A follower of Calvinism as taught in the Presbyterian Church) Presbyterian (4%). |
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