Do you foresee a future where the DMV region becomes purple? What would have to happen?

[Anonymous]

I’ve seen people refer to Loudoun as a purple county given the latest election.

In a future world, do you see the DMV region ever flipping purple or even the slightest bit not as solidly blue?

[Anonymous]

It’s only recently been as solidly blue as far out as it is now. The issue is that you have a large proportion of Federal workers who do not like to work in chaos. I traditionally was a Republican, but the kinds of policies that I care about are not what this group does. I am fiscal conservative but more libertarian in personal rights. This is many more of my colleagues than you suppose. Our politics didn’t change that much, but politics changed around us. I lived the chaos of the last Trump administration and saw the absolute rot at the core of it. It also disrupted my agency’s mission. So there’s an inspired population to stay blue in this area.

[Anonymous]

No. I do not. Federal employees and contractors vote their interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I do not. Federal employees and contractors vote their interest.

There are also a lot of highly educated people in the DMV. Unless the Republicans at a national level dramatically change their platform, the DMV isn't going to vote for them.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully. Democrats have been given carte Blanche for far too long, and everything is getting crappy. Mixed govt with gridlock where they're forced to cooperate and negotiate is always better for everyone.

[Anonymous]

We saw during this election cycle sheriffs and other LE recordings who displayed Harris signs. That will become standard practice for all LE. People will know not to publicly support Democrats.

Many of the races will only have republicans running with no democrats. This will turn the region red.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s only recently been as solidly blue as far out as it is now. The issue is that you have a large proportion of Federal workers who do not like to work in chaos. I traditionally was a Republican, but the kinds of policies that I care about are not what this group does. I am fiscal conservative but more libertarian in personal rights. This is many more of my colleagues than you suppose. Our politics didn’t change that much, but politics changed around us. I lived the chaos of the last Trump administration and saw the absolute rot at the core of it. It also disrupted my agency’s mission. So there’s an inspired population to stay blue in this area.

Most outside Fed think feds are all Dem

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: We saw during this election cycle sheriffs and other LE recordings who displayed Harris signs. That will become standard practice for all LE. People will know not to publicly support Democrats.

Many of the races will only have republicans running with no democrats. This will turn the region red.

done not to get those sane magas entering areas to see who supported whom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I do not. Federal employees and contractors vote their interest.

There are also a lot of highly educated people in the DMV. Unless the Republicans at a national level dramatically change their platform, the DMV isn't going to vote for them.

You haven't a clue about who/ what is in the Republican party. You are taking a false liberal myth and assigning it to more than half the nation. Half of our judiciary, including 6 justices educated at out top
law schools at Oxford are conservatives. Are they not "highly educated"? You also make the classic ill-educated liberal mistake of classifying all Republicans as maga and poorly educated. Are you aware there are just as many types of political beliefs from moderate to libertarian (far right, not maga) that include a lot of liberal positions, like conservatives who are pro-abortion? Do yiu even know what conservatives believe jn (hint: has to do with federalism). Are you not aware that many from centrist moderate to far right libertarian do not approve of Trump. That many held their noses while voting for him or voted libertarian or chose not to vote at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s only recently been as solidly blue as far out as it is now. The issue is that you have a large proportion of Federal workers who do not like to work in chaos. I traditionally was a Republican, but the kinds of policies that I care about are not what this group does. I am fiscal conservative but more libertarian in personal rights. This is many more of my colleagues than you suppose. Our politics didn’t change that much, but politics changed around us. I lived the chaos of the last Trump administration and saw the absolute rot at the core of it. It also disrupted my agency’s mission. So there’s an inspired population to stay blue in this area.

It’s hilarious how people can show their ignorance by posting about Loudon turning purple from blue. Like seriously, it’s never been like this before. And maybe the OP should Google “Connie Morella”, “David Catania”, and “Carol Schwartz”. Might be surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I do not. Federal employees and contractors vote their interest.

There are also a lot of highly educated people in the DMV. Unless the Republicans at a national level dramatically change their platform, the DMV isn't going to vote for them.

You haven't a clue about who/ what is in the Republican party. You are taking a false liberal myth and assigning it to more than half the nation. Half of our judiciary, including 6 justices educated at out top
law schools at Oxford are conservatives. Are they not "highly educated"? You also make the classic ill-educated liberal mistake of classifying all Republicans as maga and poorly educated. Are you aware there are just as many types of political beliefs from moderate to libertarian (far right, not maga) that include a lot of liberal positions, like conservatives who are pro-abortion? Do yiu even know what conservatives believe jn (hint: has to do with federalism). Are you not aware that many from centrist moderate to far right libertarian do not approve of Trump. That many held their noses while voting for him or voted libertarian or chose not to vote at all.

Apparently I struck a nerve given that rant. I didn't attribute a positive or negative value to education being correlated with political affiliation. I simply pointed out that it is, and that this area is highly educated. And now that Republicans are the party of Trump, the skew based on educational level has grown.

So no, this area isn't going to turn purple anytime soon. The Republicans will need to remake themselves. If they were to focus on fiscal conservatism they might have a chance, but that's not today's Republican party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I do not. Federal employees and contractors vote their interest.

There are also a lot of highly educated people in the DMV. Unless the Republicans at a national level dramatically change their platform, the DMV isn't going to vote for them.

You haven't a clue about who/ what is in the Republican party. You are taking a false liberal myth and assigning it to more than half the nation. Half of our judiciary, including 6 justices educated at out top
law schools at Oxford are conservatives. Are they not "highly educated"? You also make the classic ill-educated liberal mistake of classifying all Republicans as maga and poorly educated. Are you aware there are just as many types of political beliefs from moderate to libertarian (far right, not maga) that include a lot of liberal positions, like conservatives who are pro-abortion? Do yiu even know what conservatives believe jn (hint: has to do with federalism). Are you not aware that many from centrist moderate to far right libertarian do not approve of Trump. That many held their noses while voting for him or voted libertarian or chose not to vote at all.

+1

[Anonymous]

Doubtful. It’s just simple mathematics. It doesn’t add up based on a variety of factors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s only recently been as solidly blue as far out as it is now. The issue is that you have a large proportion of Federal workers who do not like to work in chaos. I traditionally was a Republican, but the kinds of policies that I care about are not what this group does. I am fiscal conservative but more libertarian in personal rights. This is many more of my colleagues than you suppose. Our politics didn’t change that much, but politics changed around us. I lived the chaos of the last Trump administration and saw the absolute rot at the core of it. It also disrupted my agency’s mission. So there’s an inspired population to stay blue in this area.

This is very true and explains a lot of why Virginia flipped blue from purple. The Republican party used to actually be a party of conservatism, meaning a lot of status quo and preservation of institutions and any change should be slow and reasoned. That has changed a lot in the last 20 years and now it's not really clear what Republicans believe and there doesn't really appear to be a guiding principle. Trump is mostly a populist which means his policies blow wherever public opinion does (watch his bizarre tightwire act on abortion for instance, going far to the right of most Republicans in 2016 in order to capture the evangelical vote and then swinging left and now landing on this dumb "state's rights" argument that was obviously just a politically expedient answer to blunt the impact of Dobbs on his electoral chances this year). His acolytes vary from far right Christian conservatives who are honestly pretty scary to "moderate" Republicans who are actually just interested in preserving their own power and access (the Mitch McConnells and Ted Cruzes). Actual moderates like Romney, George W Bush ("compassionate conservatism") or even Paul Ryan are gone.

And it's that last group that describes your average Northern Virginia Republican. So they've essentially left the party though can be activated occasionally when the lefty politics of the Democratic party run amok (see e.g. Governor Youngkin as a reaction to "wokism" in schools and in city councils). But they can't vote for Trump and his cronies because that's just chaos and power mongering. Basically the opposite of the old, stay-the-course conservatism of the 80s and 90s that most of them grew up with. They'll hold their nose and vote for Harris or Kaine because at least those are predictable, non-crazy options that they can work with, even if they'll never feel totally politically aligned.

The Republican party abandoned educated conservatives.

[Anonymous]

Yes...

If Dems and liberals keep messing around with schools and lowering admissions performance standards, there will be a massive backlash. Asians are also getting so angry how they're being discriminated against because of their race and because they simply perform well.