Why is a Virginia more crooked than any other?

I’ve spent some time in Virginia and on farms outside Virginia and have heard this. I cannot say with certainty but I assumed it came from the pre-barbed wire days when split rail fences went around rocks and other terrain challenges in the mountains, and also plots in both the Piedmont and Mountains were surveyed to provide river access for moving surplus crops and livestock to markets so they had few straight lines like the flatland prairie farms do. In Nelson County a segment of the Blue Ridge is named “Devil’s Backbone” because the surveyor said that surveying property lines over that rugged terrain was like surveying the Devil’s Backbone.

Lastly, if you go to the University of Virginia and Monticello where Thomas Jefferson employed his own design techniques you will observe "Serpentine Walls" where the brick is intentionally laid along a curving course for

stability. A straight brick wall will topple easily if force is applied, b not so with a serpentine wall.

Wise one: Use Google Images to find pics of split rail fences.