Your education about Virginia is incomplete, and hardly qualifies you “native” status. Ashland, Virginia is some 15 miles north of Richmond on interstate 95. I arrived in Virginia in 1956 and have been in every county in the state. I have only been away for two years.
Look, I was born in and grew up in a state which was once part of Lee County, Virginia, my mother having elected to NOT have me born in a place that'd once been part of Maryland. Some of my family settled here in 1598. I also have some antique furniture that's been handed down for the last few centuries ~ from Virginia ~ and it matches the sort of things you find in nearby Gunston Hall (once owned by ancestors), etc.
You arrived only in 1956 and still know nothing!