I'm conservative on a number of issues; probably not uniformly across the board, because no one who really pays attention to issues feels exactly the same about everything. Whether one agrees with Warner on policies (and I don't recall saying if I did), it's rather silly to take him to task for not being a native southerner.
As I said, I've only been in Virginia 25 years, so I'm still considered new here.
And if you were a Virginian, you would know we do not have registration by party in this commonwealth. :)
My Virginia pedigree goes back over 300 years. That said, you missed my point.
After he lost to John Warner, Mark Warner spent thousands of his own money on NASCAR and country music ads trying (and somewhat succeeding) to convince the sheeple that he was one of the good ol' southern boys.
The point is, regardless of any label you do or do not wear, the fact that you've missed all of this doesn't mean it didn't happen. It just means you're clueless.
He has not been taken to task for not being a southerner. He's been taken to task for pretending to be a southerner in hopes that by doing so will buy him votes. He could be from Timbuktu for all I care - he's still a lying democrat with designs on the White House.