Virginia , State, United States
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VIRGINIA , state, United States state of the south...Virginians work in government, especially in the...Langley. Government, Politics, and Higher Education...the end of the 17th cent. and began to settle...document, but the state ratified it (June...lands to the United States for the creation...Union as a separate state. After Madison and...became a hotbed of states rights sentiment...Presidents of the United States, seven were...Later, in the 20th cent., the name...