Ol’ Virginny is a lovely state and the Valley speaks to me, feels like home though I’ve never lived there, but it also could be a very authoritarian place. “Mulattoes” could not own property and the definition of that term was very broad to the point of being vague, including indians and even anyone darker than they thought a white person should be regardless of any known heritage. A lot of such people ended up fleeing to comparatively wild and ungoverned NC to get away from that. Part of the reason I doubt this Thomas Jefferson paternity is due to knowing how Virginia was toward such people for a fair amount of it’s history, certainly through to the Civil War era.
I believe Louisiana has a lot of “crossover”, also, as it were.