Oh I dont know the history, but I think I could throw a baseball from the 7 and hit west virginia, and if you are on the country roads trying to get around the traffic headed up bluemount you could probably find yourself in west virginia pretty easy.
The first one sent me into fits. The point is that we're old here, not the wild West. Hilariously, I live in one of the most German areas of Appalachia, so the people look more or less like my neighbors.
He'd also never been here, so he might have just been wrong.