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Fredericksburg is pretty far out in the sticks in VA, actually too far to really be a DC suburb, and while like many rural towns it's getting built up, I suspect you'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of Jews there; it's basically NASCAR country, really.

It's not out in the sticks as much as it used to be. And much of F-burg would now be considered bedroom community for DC. But I do believe you're right that there's not a large Jewish population there.

It's no doubt changed radically since I've been there. Lots of mover-inners, strip malls, etc., far less rural than it used to be.

But basically when you see the DC suburbs rapidly expand you're getting highly-paid government workers moving in from all over the country, becoming an overlay on top of a pre-existing Red-Country NASCAR-lovin' WASP farming population that's been there for 400 years.

And within this overall migration, you have the sub-migration of whites out of the Eastern DC suburbs in Maryland into the Western DC Suburbs in Virginia, while simultaneously those blacks that can move out of DC itself into the Eastern DC suburbs in PG County.

I honestly can't think of a DC/Baltimore community or neighborhood that's KNOWN for being Jewish; unlike NYC we don't really have an Orthodox Jew/Hasidic community at all; you'll simply be more likely to see more Jews the wealthier the community, and offhand I'd guess most would be in NORTHEN Montgomery County (away from the shootings) and in Fairfax County in VA.