The DC beltway has swallowed the rest of the state, just as Seattle is swallowing Washington State and Denver is swallowing Colorado. All you need is one huge metropolis and it’s commie Rat tentacles will devour the rest of your state.
Put another way, outside of the DC beltway in VA and outside of Richmond, population density is very low. There are not many people. So you have a huge number of lightly populated counties that vote conservative. When Richmond was smaller, and before the area of VA outside the DC beltway had a modest number of DC employees, the rest of the lightly populated counties dominated Virginia politics with solidly conservative representation.
Massive expansion of DC employment (those people all moved to Virginia or Maryland), and massive legal immigration to NOVA, have so heavily populated the 2 northern counties, that they now dominate Virginia with commie Marxists.
NoVa may be small in area but huge in population. Virginia is doomed. She is done. Stick a fork in her. The Old Dominion has become the New Californistan.
There will soon be a mass exodus of conservatives from Virginia. I can’t blame them. I too would leave if I lived there. But that is going to create a supermajority of lib-tard Virginia voters.
Next masses of New Yorkers and people from New Jersey and CT, Mass and all of commie New England are going to now descend on Virginia because face it, it is a great place to live. And now that it is a RAT bastion, soon with strict gun control, high welfare payments, he/she/it toilets, LBGTQPDFWTF friendly, gun-banning, and atheist teeming with bedwetting commies — it will be a magnet for liberals fleeing snow country.
Virginia is flat f___ed. Never to return. Ever. It is over and it is a massive tragedy.
Next masses of New Yorkers and people from New Jersey and CT, Mass and all of commie New England are going to now descend on Virginia because face it, it is a great place to live.
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That’s what has already happened in the Richmond area over the last 10 years to flip our representation.