Yes, it is a blue state. But is WV now a red state? Are MI, PA and WI now trending red. I suppose what I am saying is that re-alignment is not uncommon. At one point, the South was all blue.
VA is the swamp. With the expansion of the Federal Government to record levels, where else would the swamp reside? VA’s economy is dependent on the swamp.
It is sad that VA is now blue but it is encouraging that other long held blue states are turning red. VA turned blue because it became part and parcel of the urban, coastal elite that stretches from Boston to DC. Meanwhile in Middle America the forgotten masses realized that they were just that, forgotten.
I suppose we could waste time and energy trying to turn VA red again but recognizing why it turned blue is the big realization that must take place. Then, ask ourselves, what can we realistically do about it? In this case, given that we have NOBODY willing to shrink the Federal Government, I say that there is jack and poop we can do about it and jack just left town.
If Trump can get enough support in Congress after 2018, he start whittling down the Federal agencies by firing all those Obama appointees. Once that is done, they will leave northern Virginia and go back the hell wherever they came from.