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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far VA continues to reassure me that the inmates have not yet taken over the asylum. If/when that happens, we are out. That fact that but for NoVA the commonwealth would be a red state is still very unnerving though. [/quote]
There are strong areas of blue everywhere. Richmond, Norfolk, VA Beach, hell, Dems may still win HD-41 in rural VA. When Dems contest every seat, we force Rs to compete. I canvassed in some very rural places. Sane people are widespread throughout the state. Please don't be a NoVA snob. [/quote]

+1 to this.
-Richmond native.  Nearly every single one of my Republican friends and family in the southern half of the state are also Southern Baptists or non-denominational, Bible thumping evangelicals.  There's more association there than just "rural".  [/quote]

I’m born and raised in Richmond. Everyone I know is Episcopalian and are either GDI or moderate Republican (who did not hold their nose and vote for Trump). They’re not bible thumping, they’re not evangelical and they aren’t laser focused on abortion being the center of society politics so to them all this attention on it is ridiculous.

You can put lipstick on a pig, or a fleece vest, but it still turned out to be a pig. They’re not voting from Trump this time either, if he’s on the ballot. They know 15 weeks is code word for 6, and they’re not voting for that either.

Maybe south of Petersburg, but not in Richmond in the numbers you’re implying. [/quote]

The WASP'y Bal du Bois types don't run the VA GOP today. You're in a nice rich bubble of moderate fiscal conservatives, tony private schools, and Mercedes or Audi wagons.

The typical evangelicals of VA have nothing in common with you - culturally, financially, or politically - on a day-to-day basis. They want to burn it all down if they're not in control. Typical low-class prole mindset who can't moderate themselves or delay gratification that fall for the tall-tales of demagogues. [/quote]

Sure, but that’s true in every state they’re in. It’s not unique to Virginia. But that isn’t the majority of Virginians. We aren’t Texas of the Bible Belt (thank god). [/quote]

Texas cities are majorly blue.  Much more so than cities in other states.  Will they ever flip that state…?[/quote]

they have come so close to winning a couple big elections. My suspicion is that the sate actually IS blue, but the voter suppression tactics that the Rs running their legislature have used have been highly effective (project RedMap was the brainchild of that a-hole Congressman from the houston burbs who spent time in prison).

That said, I wouldn't stay in that state as a woman currently and I'm certainly not sending my soon to be 18 year old there for college, even though my husband was Texan born and raised. We have family there and we visit yearly. That is as much time as I will stay in that place.[/quote]

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