Allow me to take a stab at that brief flame war.
Hagerstown, MD where Sam Danner is from is 30 minutes from the border with West Virginia (the nearest point I believe is Shepherdstown, WV). Maryland and West Virginia have a kind of rivalry, which is at a constant simmer primarily along the state borders (having grown up in Berkeley Springs, WV, which is literally across the Potomac River from Hancock, MD, I am well aware of this state of affairs).
The Maryland side of this rivalry see West Virginians as Third World rubes. The West Virginia side sees the Marylanders as blowhards with inflated sense of themselves. Sam (american793) set off troy's West Virginian sensitivities when he expressed mock surprise that computers were sold in WV.
Polaris you are indeed the man. You are the first Objective man to speak besides Gravy and MS. Lisa Simpson. Thankyou Polaris, I think that you area stand up guy.
Of course there are computers sold in West Virginia. You just have to occasionally use Elmer's to keep the rungs from coming out of their sockets.
Actually, in all seriousness, Sam probably knows several West Virginians quite well, as we (yes I said "we" - 23 years in WV trumps 18 months in Texas in how I describe myself) tend to shop at the stores in Hagerstown when we live in the Panhandle. It's a shorter drive to Hagerstown than to Winchester, VA, and the selection of stores and restaurants is better than Martinsburg, and Charlestown, WV (though the latter does have the casino and racetrack).