Danville is a charming old town, grand history, grand old buildings and mansions downtown. It is dying but not quite so badly as the writer depicts. There’s a very nice road course and racing country club just east of town, VIR, Virginia International Raceway. Several recreational lakes nearby. It’s not without appeal, Southside VA is very conservative, real estate is cheap there as well as in Caswell County NC just south of town. And, while you might be able to see the Blue Ridge in some parts of Danville it’s certainly not in them. I have no idea what “the bellybutton” of the Blue Ridge is and have never heard that term before.
In HS, we drove from Greensboro to Danville to buy Stroh’s beer.
There are hundreds of Danville like communities across the nation's fly over country. I am surprised they survive given the economic events of the last twenty-five years. Yet I worry about what if the Trump economic boom does not reach these communities. Will these voters abandon the MAGA revolution?