Loudoun County is the northern most County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Cities and towns are mostly “bedroom communities” for the commutes to D.C., Fairfax, and Reston. The commuters are largely government, government contractors, and IT people.
The County is sharply divided... and has been for a long time (going back to the Great War).
The eastern part (east of Leesburg, the county seat) is densely developed and very liberal. (lots of muslims, btw) Their (!) growing population swung the County over to liberal-land about 10 years ago. Growth in Loudoun has been spectacular for the past 20 years.
The western half butts up against the Blue Ridge Mountain and consists mostly of large acreage homes and some farms - especially horse farms. “Farm-etts”, we call them. The large estates - we call them “McMansions” have increased in number for the past 30 years and are slowly changing the nature of even the western half.
Loudoun is one of the fastest-growing, richest counties in the nation.
I got more, if you want but that’s off the top of my head.
Even with all that - I still love living here.
Summed up quite nicely...
Good info. But I was only asking because the original poster declined to include any kind of a dateline to their article. We shouldn’t have to search for that kind of thing. Now that I know, I have included it in the ‘keywords’ section in the header.