Virginia is now a solid blue state for two reasons - immigration and a elitist RINO establishment that would rather lose than cede party control to conservatives.
The usually perspicacious Salena missed that. It’s different from her Pennsylvania.
Illegal immigrants from Central America and green card non-citizens from Asia are registered and vote in large numbers in democrat controlled Northern Virginia. It is often the margin of victory for the Democrats.
The establishment Republicans who run the party are feckless liberal never-Trumpers who brag about “reaching across the aisle”. If a conservative wins a primary, that back stab him and openly support the democrat opponents (Cuccinelli, Stewart, North, etc.). They will withhold funds from conservative congressional and senate candidates for federal and state offices, guaranteeing their loss.
It is this apathy and antipathy by country club Republican elites and the exhaustively recruited immigrant voters that the Democrats and their allies like the SEIU have harvested that are quickly making Virginia into California East.
It is a lesson thatRepublicans better learn soon, but I doubt they will, since the establishment who still run the party are too busy hating Trump.
Hear hear!
Correct with one exception. Legal immigration, not illegal aliens voting, has changed the electoral balance. I say that as both a poll watcher and election officer for decades in NoVA.
The exact two factors that transformed California.
Virginia is blue because northern Virginia has been gorging in the Federal teat for so many years that gov. employees and employees of gov. contractors have invaded everything 50+ miles from DC - and all those nursing and growing fat on the Federal milk are heavily Dems.
Our state has been invaded & raped by leftists.
We need a clean separation of Northern Virginia from the rest of us. Hey, we’ve got West Virginia, North & South Carolina, why not North Virginia?
Set the rest of us free.
Only trouble is Roanoke, Charlottesville/Albemarle Co., Richmond are also Dem hotbeds.......but they are not large numerically.