Conservative Virginia Counties Float Seceding to West Virginia

Conservative Virginia Counties Float Seceding to West Virginia
President of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr. at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 21, 2016. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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A long-shot proposal for Virginia counties to secede and become part of neighboring West Virginia gained momentum after conservative leader and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed it this week.

The proposal by grassroots conservative activists, dubbed “Vexit,” calls for redrawing the border of Virginia, whose legislature recently flipped to Democrats, allowing some of the Old Dominion’s westernmost and most conservative localities to join West Virginia.