“West Virginia is the state with the oldest population.”
What PolitiFact found
Justice has a point that West Virginia has an older population than many states, and as recently as two decades ago it did rank No. 1. However, today, it’s not the oldest, by two different measures.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jim Justice (Governor of West Virginia) made this claim around 27 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 July 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Jim Justice has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 3 true.
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Related checks
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