4.93% relocated to other counties in Texas ($32,142 average AGI) 1.00% relocated to other states ($6,478 average AGI)Victoria County:1.00%Texas average:2.01%.
West Virginia is the 35th State Admitted to the Union. On June 20, 1863, West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state in the Union. The land that formed the new state formerly constituted part of Virginia.
In 1861, Virginians in the northwestern part of the state defied Virginia's secession from the United States. The region chose to remain in the Union and form a new state. West Virginia was admitted into the Union in 1863, after conditions requiring the gradual emancipation of slaves had been met. The state motto is Mountaineers are always free, and West Virginia lives up to its nickname of the Mountain State.. With an average altitude of 1,500 feet above sea level, it's the highest of any state east of the Mississippi River.