Over the last thirty years there has been an increasing flood of people from Maryland moving into Northern Virginia to take advantage of lower taxes, less regulation, and lower home prices. They flee to leave those problems behind and then methodicalcally elect officials who promise to replicate the very conditions they fled from.
Mind boggling. But Governor Sauron I mean Northam played a REALLY heavy hand to Virginia Beach over virus lockdown and hit their economy hard. He made some vacation rental owners and beach goers along with restaurant and mom and pop stores dependent on tourism VERY upset with him. Plus most schools are still virtual.
.....same with Texas....lots of folks moving here from California and then they say, why can’t Texas be more like California...?? many parts of Texas are now purple, when they used to be solidly red conservative.... we’ll see....probably not tonight...with all of the issues regarding ballots, etc. I doubt we will know who the winner is for about another week...