I saw this story a few days ago and it just kills me.
As a life long VA resident I’ve watched my once very solid Conservative State turn. Flooded by folks that are not from Virginia, they have brought their 3rd World and Government first sensibilities to transform my State and Country.
My brother and his wife moved to Virginia from New Jersey forty years ago. For years I listened to them go on and on about how much better it was to live in the Old Dominion instead of the Garden State.
But I also heard complaints about “rednecks” and other aspersions, especially about the state’s history of segregation.
Well, after all these years, I guess my relatives in Virginia think they’ve finally “improved” it.
Yes it’s sad to see Virginia start the liberal death spiral. Being a native Californian and having helped the Gipper win 2 Governor races and 2 Presidential elections, you can imagine how I feel about the invasion in my home State. It is so bad that I had to leave 30 years ago.
In what way was VA conservative ? Legislature ? local level ? Were RATS conservative ?
They’ve only had 9 Repubs lead the state since 1856 and 6 of them were in the last 47 years.
I feel your pain. I lived in New Hampshire before it was ruined by Massholes coming north to get away from the mess they made of their own state. It didn't take them long to ruin that state also. Even the Old Man in the Mountain slid away in disgust.
No windmill is safe, so long as the Governor-elect is out there tilting his lance at them.
But the windmills got their revenge, dashing Don Quixote to the ground and leaving him with only a moral “victory”. And some very real hurt.