Map needs updated, one of the disputes that escalated the Hatfield-McCoy feud concerned the ownership of a hog. The feud lead to the Governors of Kentucky and West Virginia threatening to invade each other and ended when Kentucky’s Adjunct General (highest ranking office of the state militia) Sam Hill ordered a military incursion into West Virginia.
Kentucky and West Virginia in 1859: “whew, glad we solved that fued before it escalated! We could have had a full blown civil war on our hands”
West Virginia
1859
Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.
So… how soon can I expect my own private pig war to begin? :-D
Wait, I thought that was I hawaii?
Anyone who’s had Berkshire pork knows that it’s worth going to war over
insert Technoblade reference here
I see your Pig War and I raise you our wholesome Midwestern “Toledo War” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
Oh wow! So that’s how Michigan got the UP!
