General geographic area?
Areas in the southern portion of the Richmond-Petersburg metro area, including the entire cities of Petersburg and Hopewell. A Virginia senate district encompasses approximately 200,000 persons. Petersburg is the blackest jurisdiction in Virginia, where close to 80% of the people there are African American.
When he was in the House of Delegates in 2015 or so, he was serving a six month jail sentence on “work release”, meaning that he attended the House during the day and reported to jail in the evenings. No democrat wanted to sit next to him in the House Chamber (a key scene in the movie “Dave” was filmed in that chamber).