"West, by God! West Virginia!"
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Anonymous miner, settler, or frontiersman in various folk tales about the territory that became West Virginia. The usual story goes that a man from future West Virginia territory became irritated with being considered a Virginian and retorted with the territory's future name. This has also been quoted as "West, by God, Virginia".
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