You could see this coming.
Thanks to low interest rates and the housing boom, the parasites are escaping the cities but voting the same way (Democrat) they did when they were destroying their cities. In other words, they fouled their nests and now they're fouling everybody else's.
Democrat Mark Warner is very popular (75% approval rating _) in VA, so it's natual to an extent they'd stay with his chosen successor..However, calling Warner a Dem is a misnomer..ideologically, he'd be in the middle of the GOP House caucus..