Well, we didn’t stay home, and not all Virginians are simpletons. We’re in the central part of the state-—rural farm country-—which is solidly red. On election day, our polling place was crammed full of people excited to throw Obama out. But the beltway crowd in northern VA, the blacks in Hampton Roads, and the northern transplants all over the state were enough ruin things.
Northern Virginia is populated mostly by government employees or contractor transplants (mostly from the northeast) who have no real cultural or political connection with the rest of the Commonwealth. But because there are so many of them, they more than balance out the geographically larger red areas and dominate state-wide elections.
I don’t think I said that all Virginians are simpletons. If I implied that, I apologize. I guess Virginia is just not going to go red in national elections again?