What the heck happened to Virginia?
DC is what happened. Northern Virginia is a cesspool of gargantuan proportions, filled with liberals and government drones.
Immigrants. Both illegal aliens and Yankees.
The Beltway fairway of the circus of Northern VA— Fairfax County and outlying urban sprawl of fedgov lib workers for life is what happened to VA. Numbers of blue counties out polling the better parts of the state as one moves West, and the most poverty hit mtn. portions of the finest people one could ever meet. The money from Richmond never makes it past Roanoke, so the mtn. folks say— and they could really use new factory starts with real economic help and attraction- they are great workers. And in those Eastern blue counties large concentrations of illegal immigrant and winners of the ridiculous diversity lottery immigrants (that Trump wants stopped and removed)and thus... chain migration- major impact on the real Virginia.
Personally, tongue in cheek- think this all started with the federally enforced requirement for property taxes on properties which were within the “insurrectionist” lands (for example- Arlington and surrounding lands, which belonged to Martha Custis and Robert E. Lee)during the Civil War— that these taxes must be paid in person by the landholder to the occupying Union supervised county clerks. This was by an act of Congress of the time, signed by Lincoln and enforced by Union army- imagine that. No internet to pay the taxes in absentia. It’s how Arlington was seized to be turned into a National Cemetery. A “federal land grab” if one will.
Northam is just trying to remove the People’s arms, today, like any good lying Statist socialist.
Voting wise- the blue counties still put in Dave Brat (R) so one true conservative can win if they’re smart. So, Dave knows how to win there.
We were overrun by northeast liberals and illegal aliens.
The illegal aliens started arriving in large numbers shortly after W. was elected.
Invasion and colonization by third world Democrat voters, both legal and illegal.
The biggest problem is the northern counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William were flooded with Third World people who were given citizenship and all vote for Communists. Those same counties also have a lot of voter fraud by the Democrats.
Also, way too many people from Maryland and DC moved down here and they brought their leftist voting habits with them. There are now so many of them in the northern counties they overrun all the good people in the rest of the state.
Here in Stafford County (just south of Prince William County and only 35 miles from DC) the leftists have almost taken over. When I was stationed in DC and bought a home here in 1992 there were about 50K residents in the county and it voted about 85% or more conservative. We now have about 150K residents and vote 51% conservative.
The only good thing left in my county is the last Democrat was voted off the County Board and replaced by my friend and neighbor, who is a staunch conservative.
The VA GOP ran/backed a stupid RINO for gov and lost.
Virginia elects democrats for governor, maybe 70% of the time.