Jug Ears and ValJar flooded Virginia with refugees and other assorted immigrants for eight years and fueled the expansion of fedgov. The never ending tide of H1s that managed to stay here didn't help either. When we left Fairfax, we were the only family longer than second generation American on our street.
The gopE sucks and let seats run uncontested. In one race they blocked one (R) hopeful and still allowed the seat to run uncontested for the dems.
For many of the seats they do "compete" they run squishy candidates that are dem-lite. But, they're close to DC and get invited to all the great cocktail parties.