Posted on 05/07/2016 5:39:52 PM PDT by mrsmith
"This map compares the population of Northern Virginia with that of Southwest Virginia and the rest of the state, and shows a significant change over the past century. In 1920, the combined population of area “A”, or the three Virginia counties furthest to the southwest (the counties of Lee, Scott and Wise–the independent city of Norton did not exist), was 96,569. The combined population of area “C”, or the Northern Virginia region (the city of Alexandria and the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William–the independent cities of Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park did not exist), was 90,280... The rate of population growth of Northern Virginia, compared with the rest of Virginia, has been such that area “B” has grown by one or two counties in each of the years between 2011 and 2015 (it grew to include Orange and Powhatan in 2011, Louisa in 2012, Culpeper in 2013, Powhatan in 2014, and Goochland in 2015)."
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...love southside Virginia...
Has some other interesting political Va maps here:
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I’m in one of the compared counties- hard to believe any DC resident ever had to travel 30 miles to the grocery store like us.
What a difference a century makes.
This is how VA went blue for Obama and McAwful.
Add in largely blue Richmond and Tidewater, and voila!
Shenandoah County is where my Mom’ family lives, is amazingly consistent from 1900, about 20,000. I know many moved to D C for jobs but came back. I have had fun finding them in the census rolls from 1850 to 1940.
“To Be A Virginian either by Birth, Marriage, Adoption, or even on one’s Mother’s side, is an Introduction to any State in the Union, a Passport to any Foreign Country, and a Benediction from Above.”
I was born in Woodstock VA myself. When I grew up in the 70’s it was a very special place. We had one murder in about 20 years. Illegals started flooding in during the late 80s. Now they have pockets where English is barely spoken.
There are a number of city-states in the USA. Where small densely populated urban areas run the government while large rural areas are poorly (if at all) represented. They should be broken up so that more people can have government as they want it.
New Virginia is a tumor growing out of Washington, D.C.
Not entirely. It also went Democrat because of the betrayal of the Virginia GOP establishment and specific actions taken by members of that establishment to assist McAuliffe - because they didn’t get their man and the grassroots did.
Sound familiar?
I’m VERY afraid of DC becoming a state. It’s a terrible idea.
That would make it unstoppable IMO.
Sure would like to run them off though. People don’t realize they’re destroying Virginia by expanding the federal government, and, I’m sure, wouldn’t care anyway.
DC will never become a state because the losers that run the local DC govt are incompetent and running a state requires work. All the mayor has to do is decide how to spend money. It is an easy gig. He can blame problems on Congressional oversight committees.
Where did that quote come from?
I seem to remember it but have no idea who said it.
Indeed it does. Too familiar.
It really is a shame that all of the new people that make up Population C are transplants from bankrupt reality-deficient zones (CA, NY). This is what is destroying Virginia and Virginian culture year by year.
Simply cede DC back to Maryland like the Virginia portion of the proposed District was returned to Virginia. This would be a marriage of like minded individuals.
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