might be closer. Thought it was unusual for Gillespie to have an ad supporting the Confederate monuments. How could a true Southern bona fides say he would take them down? There is so much heritage of families there, not dying out, and dating back to the Revolution.
There are still a lot of folks in Virginia that think belonging to the FFA is a big deal, and that anyone without at least a few generations of Virginians preceding them is an outsider.
I used to work with a woman who thought that her FFA credentials were a job qualification.