 Still, Virginia and West Virginia owed money for debts on infrastructure which had been destroyed during the war and had to be replaced.The recovering state did not have adequate revenues to pay all these debts.Sharp political divisions in Virginia on this issue resulted in creation of a new major political group in the late 1870s, the Readjusters, a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, and African-Americans seeking a reduction in Virginia's prewar debt by allocating an appropriate portion to the new State of West Virginia.