How Voters Turned Virginia From Deep Red to Solid Blue

NY Times ^ | 11/10/19

[Altura Ct.]

SOUTH RIDING, Va. — Not long ago, this rolling green stretch of Northern Virginia was farmland. Most people who could vote had grown up here...they usually chose Republicans.

The fields of Loudoun County are disappearing. In their place is row upon row of cookie-cutter townhouses, clipped lawns and cul-de-sacs — a suburban landscape for as far as the eye can see. Unlike three decades ago, the residents are often from other places, like India and Korea. And when they vote, it is often for Democrats.

“Guns, that is the most pressing issue for me,” said Vijay Katkuri, 38, a software engineer from southern India, explaining why he voted for a Democratic challenger in Tuesday’s elections. He was shopping for chicken at the Indian Spice Food Market. “There are lots of other issues, but you can only fix them if you are alive.”

Mr. Katkuri’s vote — the first of his life — helped flip a longtime Republican State Senate district and deliver the Virginia statehouse to the Democratic Party for the first time in a generation... But while political leaders come and go, the deeper, more lasting force at work is demographics.

Once the heart of the confederacy, Virginia is now the land of Indian grocery stores, Korean churches and Diwali festivals. The state population has boomed — up by 38 percent since 1990, with the biggest growth in densely settled suburban areas like South Riding. One in 10 people eligible to vote in the state were born outside the United States, up from one in 28 in 1990. It is also significantly less white. In 1990, the census tracts that make up Mr. Katkuri’s Senate district were home to about 35,000 people — 91 percent of them white. Today, its population of 225,000 is just 64 percent white.

[conservativeimage]

[Governor Dinwiddie]

This is the Dem plan for all of America.
 

[gathersnomoss]

Slip over to Costco in Henrico County today and tell me what has changed there in the past 20 years. I shop the Southside....the customers are much more pleasing.

[Travis McGee]

[sport]

And it is working.

[gattaca]

YES, VIRGINIA, IMMIGRATION IS TURNING THE COUNTRY BLUE
November 15, 2017

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-11-15.html

[Big Red Badger]

Yup,
Ole Vijay doesn’t see
the Whole issue.
He has Already cut
off his penis because
He’s been Raped.

[LS]

Guess that’s why a MAJORITY of Virginians voted for Republicans.

Sounds to me more like redistricting shenanigans than “popular will.”

[LS]

Guess that’s why a MAJORITY of Virginians voted for Republicans.

Sounds to me more like redistricting shenanigans than “popular will.”

[mosesdapoet]

What was the voter turnout in Virginia ?
In FR postings so far none have mentioned what voter turnouts were in those states having elections. Any analysis of the results which doesn’t include turnout is worthless when considering the impact on the 2020 potential result

[KC_Conspirator]

Big gubbermint jerks have spilled into NOVA, that is the story.

[NobleFree]

One in 10 people eligible to vote in the state were born outside the United States, up from one in 28 in 1990.

Mass immigration - legal or illegal - is the death of our Constitutional republic. Corporate globalists and their lackeys who claim we "need" foreign labor deserve to be fitted for rope neckties.