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The Picard Maneuver lemmy.world The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world
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bitteroldcoot piefed.social bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
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Which, in a great piece of irony, no longer produces oranges.

It’s too far north and gets frosts, plus citrus greening has killed the Florida citrus crop. There are a whole lot of abandoned groves in Orange County, Florida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease

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lividweasel lemmy.world lividweasel@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-05
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Which, in a great piece of irony, no longer produces oranges. It’s too far north and gets frosts, plus citrus greening has killed the Florida citrus crop. There are a whole lot of abandoned groves in Orange County, Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease

Frankly, I’m not surprised that you can’t grow oranges in Orange County, Vermont.

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October lemmy.world edgemaster72@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
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What's with all the specks in Virginia? Some weird Commonwealth bs?

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maturelemontree lemmy.zip maturelemontree@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-02-11
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Incredible that they chose to color the Orange County counties not orange, and every not Orange County county orange.

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tychosmoose piefed.social tychosmoose@piefed.social
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What's with all the specks in Virginia? Some weird Commonwealth bs?

Yep. There are 95 counties and 38 independent cities (the blobs).

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lividweasel lemmy.world lividweasel@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-05
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What's with all the specks in Virginia? Some weird Commonwealth bs?

The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, all municipalities incorporated as "cities" have been "independent cities", also called "free cities", since 1871, when a revised state constitution took effect following the American Civil War and the creation of West Virginia.

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just2look lemmy.zip just2look@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-14
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What's with all the specks in Virginia? Some weird Commonwealth bs?

They are independent cities. They are separate legal entities from the counties that surround them. Not sure why cities in VA do that though.

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samus12345 sh.itjust.works samus12345@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-03
#9 · Quote Reply

And not a single one is named Blue County!

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SatyrSack quokk.au SatyrSack@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-08-25
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Incredible that they chose to color the Orange County counties not orange, and every not Orange County county orange.

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GraniteM lemmy.world GraniteM@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-11
#11 · Quote Reply

Free OC! Free OC!

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scibra122 piefed.social scibra122@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-03-03
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They are independent cities. They are separate legal entities from the counties that surround them. Not sure why cities in VA do that though.

Outgrowth of the early colonial charter system that Virginia had and a few centuries of evolution from that point. In at least a few cases was a "great" way to maintain segregation, but many of the cities were independent well before that point and some actually ended up annexing the county they were initially independent from, leading to the weird situation in the southeastern tip where there are seven "cities", almost all of which are county-sized

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discocactus lemmy.world discocactus@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-22
#13 · Quote Reply

You madman.

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ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 slrpnk.net Nemo@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-01
#14 · Quote Reply

Frankly, I’m not surprised that you can’t grow oranges in Orange County, Vermont.

What about orange cheddar?

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PyroNeurosis lemmy.blahaj.zone PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-11-09
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What about orange cheddar?

You cannot grow orange cheddar either.

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ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 slrpnk.net Nemo@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-01
#16 · Quote Reply

You cannot grow orange cheddar either.

dang

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sawdustprophet midwest.social sawdustprophet@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-06-30
#17 · Quote Reply

Free OC! Free OC!

Kill the bee! Kill the bee!

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