U.S. States by First Letter and Clue

But he's completely wrong if he claims they aren't in West Virginia too. The Shenandoah River is largely in Virginia, but ends up in West Virginia, where it joins the Potomac at Harpers Ferry. The same is true for the Blue Ridge Mountains, which run through eastern West Virginia after starting in Pennsylvania and then running south all the way to Georgia.

And being partly right about the geography doesn't mean you're right about the song. While Virginia has mountains in its western counties Virginia has never embraced mountains as part of its identity--as opposed to West Virginia, whose state university's teams adopted The Mountaineer as their mascot in 1890--80 years before the song was written. The lyrics of the song refer to "West Virginia," not "western Virginia." And the state has adopted it as one of its state songs; Virginia hasn't. I could go on but I'm running out of characters.