There’s no doubt that Blacks and Hispanics continue to tilt further to the Left with each passing election.
But what seems to be killing the Virginia GOP is the growth of Northern Virginia. Besides the fore-mentioned minority groups in NoVa, there are a lot of white government workers who are strongly voting Democrat.
The increase of federal government (especially under Clinton and Obama and to a lesser extent under Bush II) have made Virginia really competitive.
I have followed Virginia politics from afar for at least 24 years and I can remember in the past when NoVa was a stronghold of GOP voters. Now, it seems anything but.
How much has the dole and government employment grown there? That would be the most common source of Democrat votes I would think.
I was in Virginia for a bit over 60 years. I moved a good number of years ago. I still have friends there and the short version as many here are realizing, sadly, is VA is blue except for the State HOR and that won’t be long for this world once demographics make up for Dems not voting. I followed the VA election closely and WAY too many of those House seats were way too close.
There is much we can do, but we can’t stop demographics. *sigh*
Northern Virginia will continue to become more Democrat as the Federal government continues to grow. Five out of ten of the richest counties in the US are in the DC area; they’re that rich because of government jobs and government spending.
In the not-too-distant past, blacks were more likely than whites to oppose both legal abortion and gay marriage. But now that their new god supports both as holy sacraments, there is NOTHING the Dems want that they oppose.