[JPJones]

“Virginia: in addition to NOVA swinging my state into the Dem column, other contributors include:
the Norfolk Naval base area,
Richmond (capital),
and Charlottesville (University of Virginia)”

Depressing.

Personally I don’t see any rectification of this; a giant fedgov boulder halfway down a Mount Everest, nothing is going to stop it until it reaches the bottom, and anything getting in its way will be crushed.

[Dagnabitt]

There has also been tremendous third immigration into N. Virginia. Much of Arlington Co. is basically El Salvador. Bailly’s Crossroads is Yemen.

[sockhead]

Personally I don’t see any rectification of this; a giant fedgov boulder halfway down a Mount Everest, nothing is going to stop it until it reaches the bottom, and anything getting in its way will be crushed.

I agree, hard to be optimistic about turning things around. I'm old, but I feel sorry for my teenage grandsons, what the future of the country holds for them.