Virginia was always red. All the government employees and lobbyists have made the property values and economy go up while turning the state blue. Just look at that punk governor and how the Senators turned out. I’ve said it before. Trump, if elected, should move the capitol. It’s a good way the put a stake in the heart of the political class. Move it to Detroit. Just how many of these upper class folk will relocate?
It didn’t help in Virginia that the idiot “Republican” ex-senator, John Warner, not only endorsed by actually made a commercial endorsing the Democrat, Mark Warner, over a moderate Republican Ed Gillespie. Gillespie ended up losing to this phony, Mark Warner, by about 11,000 which I lay right at the feet of John Warner, who had also screwed Ollie North in the Senate race years earlier.
I agree, get that infernal capitol out of here. I would put it in the middle Kansas in a cornfield.
Let's face it, folks. Political transformation over time has almost nothing to do with political philosophy and everything to do with growing urbanization. People living in urban areas tend to become so woefully ignorant about how the world really works that they lose their sense of American values.