VA voted for the Republican presidential candidate from 1968 until 2008.
“VA voted for the Republican presidential candidate from 1968 [through 2004].”
Demographics.
Back in 2004 NOVA wasn’t a third-world shithole, but it is now, not to mention all of the recently-radicalized leftist government “workers” and others whose jobs depend entirely on the public sector. Add in a bunch of ex-Republican suburban Karens, and voila!
Take out Fairfax and the inside-the-beltway areas, and Virginia has a fighting chance to do the right thing electorally. If DC ever really does become a state, it should have take back NOVA plus Montgomery & P.G. counties in Maryland. That would be one huge, disgusting sewer, but VA and MD might be salvaged.