NoVa has ALREADY turned Virginia Purple. The line between Red and Blue USED to be the Beltway. Now it’s out to Mount Weather and the rest of the first range of the Appalachians. . .
Yep, the danger is in the turning of purple to blue.
Born in southern VA, I grew up in and around DC.
I seriously don’t know what I would do with that massive government workforce that has grown around DC including so, so many contractors. Their whole livelihood is ‘government’. I have a CPA cousin near Annapolis that contracts exclusively with Beltway bandits and govt offices.
G-people around DC are a powerful lobby. Feed them and they are usually quiet; starve them and all hell breaks loose via their streetwalking Hos in the media.