...love southside Virginia...
Has some other interesting political Va maps here:
https://twitter.com/nakessler
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.”
New Virginia is a tumor growing out of Washington, D.C.
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.