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DP.  What are you talking about?  In 2020, Gerry Connolly won VA-11 with 71% of the vote.  That district has never been "solidly red".  [/quote]

PP should have said 20 years ago rather than 15.  Tom Davis, a centrist Republican, won the 11th District by large margins from 1994 to 2006.  It's been solidly blue in just about all elections for over 15 years.  [/quote]

The districts have been redrawn.  Frank Wolf was my congressman until 2016.  Then Barbara Comstock, I think.  Now, I am in the 11th district--same house.

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And there was John Warner, Virginia's moderate Republican senator until 2009. He lived in Alexandria. Those days are long over.

There is nary an opening for a republican to be reelected or appointed to the FCPS, FCCPS, or APS school boards ever again.  [/quote]

I don’t believe that, and I typically voted blue. All politics is local and the school board is cutting deeply into its margins with the boundary fiasco.[/quote]

Locally, it won't change.  Decreased support in NoVA for dems would help Rs win statewide but that's as far as it goes.

Generally, the richest will continue to manage/avoid most of the problems by paying for tutors, private schools, driving kids every day after getting a pupil placement. The system will continue to decline, perhaps with a mere handful of "good" schools left after another decade, perhaps not.

Some middle class/rich will increasingly turn to homeschooling, which is more feasible and effective than ever.

Some people will just move.

In all cases, as the system declines the area will continue to be blue, with or without a thriving private school lane for those with enough money/luck with scholarships to take that route.

See: Baltimore, New York City, et. al.[/quote]

This is spot on. Of all things, schools, which many constituents think to be among the most important issues, are where Democratic policies can have the most detrimental impact. But yet the pattern repeats. Once the schools have been ruined there is no recovery.[/quote]

And you think the public schools in Oklahoma, for example, are better?[/quote]

Have you seen the test scores for the out of favor FCPS high schools?[/quote]

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