“I know of no Virginian who took any pride in J W Booth.”
...because we can blame him on Maryland for one thing...
Yes, Booth was born in and lived most of his life in Maryland.
Like many Marylanders Booth was a southern sympathiser who travelled in both north and south during the war.
Booth mistakenly believed he would be hailed as a hero in Virginia after killing Lincoln.
Far from it, he found no safe haven in Virginia because Virginians did not consider assassination either manly or courageous.
Booth may have been sympathetic to the south, but he did not understand the south.