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Anonymous wrote:I would say Burke with a high military presence is more mixed than other areas.

Not necessarily, in my experience. I can count on one hand the number of Trump signs I saw in my neighborhood, and they were outnumbered by far. All of my military neighbors voted blue.

What makes you think the number of Trump signs has any relationship to voting? None of the Trump supporters I know have signs or bumper stickers lest their house or car be vandalized.

So are all the Democratic signs a false flag?

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea how my neighbors might vote or think politically. Why does it matter anyway ?

It matters. I've lived in red/rural/conservative areas where you couldn't get a school levy passed no matter how dire the need, because of the hate for taxes and little interest in supporting public education. So kids ended up crammed into trailers for classrooms instead of additional schools being built, while charter schools and homeschooling were prioritized, extolled and/or received additional resources. Where the school board created a review committee to target a US history class because they wanted something that was "uncritical" of American history. And where the GOP-controlled board majority believed that pre-K and K resources were unimportant because the district wasn't legally required to educate children before the age of 6.

Nah, I'll stick to blue and/or blue-leaning purple areas.

These are the Fairfax County precincts that Ed Gillespie won in 2017:

613-Westgate (Mount Vernon and part of Fort Belvoir)
803-Clifton (Clifton and most of the SW part of the county)
815-Woodyard (SW part of county between Fairfax Co Pkwy and Clifton precinct)
841-Popes Head (Between Braddock Road, Fairfax Co Pkwy, and Ox Road)
845-Fountainhead (South of Ox Road and Henderson Road)
915-Virginia Run (West edge of county south of Braddock Road and bordering Loudoun County)
923-Bull Run (West edge of county south of Virginia Run precinct and bordering Loudoun and Prince William Counties)

So basically the southwestern portion of the county plus Fort Belvoir.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, VA Democrats, but the sizeable number of Republicans is why I could never move to NoVa--as POC and an immigrant family, I would not feel comfortable raising a family there. DC or MD for this reason.

-VA native

Your frame of reference is way out of date. Times have changed.

+1

This may have been true 15-20 years ago but it no longer is.

I’m the VA native PP. I certainly know things are changing. But based on both anecdotal evidence from coworkers, poll numbers, and personal, not always pleasant interactions while canvassing in 2018, I still prefer MD/DC for raising a family. VA still just has a very different feel. I should also say we have immigrant roots but are (multiracial) black, which affects my perspective and comfort level.

OMG! Stay where you are. Nobody misses you in VA.

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Anonymous wrote:I have yet to meet a human being in Arlington or Falls Church who will admit to biting for a Republican.

Our Arlington neighbors have a Trump/Pence 2020 sign. Their kids went to all private catholic schools growing up, including high school at Gonzaga for high school. They haven't been wearing masks, have large gatherings multiple times a week at their home, and the young adult kids have been playing golf 3-4 times a week with large groups of young men (who all meet at their house with clubs and golf attire before leaving to carpool).

Oh STFU

Truth hurts?

We have a few families like that in our neighborhood. Definitely a type.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, VA Democrats, but the sizeable number of Republicans is why I could never move to NoVa--as POC and an immigrant family, I would not feel comfortable raising a family there. DC or MD for this reason.

-VA native

It's fine, really. We can do without your sanctimony.

If you want to find out how progressive white Democrats in DC and MD really are, just suggest that the boundaries of Wilson and B-CC need to be redrawn to send some students to Cardozo and Einstein.

Wilson is 1/3 black and 1/3 Hispanic you dum dum.

I have no idea how my neighbors might vote or think politically. Why does it matter anyway ?

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Anonymous wrote:I have yet to meet a human being in Arlington or Falls Church who will admit to biting for a Republican.

Our Arlington neighbors have a Trump/Pence 2020 sign. Their kids went to all private catholic schools growing up, including high school at Gonzaga for high school. They haven't been wearing masks, have large gatherings multiple times a week at their home, and the young adult kids have been playing golf 3-4 times a week with large groups of young men (who all meet at their house with clubs and golf attire before leaving to carpool).

Oh STFU

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Anonymous wrote:Vienna leans more politically conservative than some other NoVA areas (like Falls Church for example).

This is not supported by facts. Vienna 22181 voted like 73% for Dems in 2016 and every election. It's a fallacy that Vienna is somehow "conservative."

Likewise, areas around Ft. Belvoir, with lots of military prescence (like Kingstowne in Fairfax cnty) are also very, very blue.

NOVA is Democratic.

West Springfield, Burke, Fairfax Station are definitely mixed due to a higher military and contractor presence. Not conservative but mixed. I will say the people who put out signs and yard signs for Republican candidates definitely tend to skew older.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, VA Democrats, but the sizeable number of Republicans is why I could never move to NoVa--as POC and an immigrant family, I would not feel comfortable raising a family there. DC or MD for this reason.

-VA native

You’re being close-minded, pp.

He is, which is why VA is not a good fit for him.

--Immigrant POC family in McLean.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an immigrant and POC and there is a significantly higher percent of us in NoVa than there is dc proper. Facts are hard I know.

DP but what are the facts? There is a significantly higher percentage of POC in NoVa than in DC? Or there is a significantly higher percentage of immigrant?

There are more Asians and Hispanics (20.2% and 16.4% respectively) in FFX than DC (11% Hispanic, 4% Asian), but fewer blacks (10% vs. 45%). Significantly more immigrants in FFX (31% vs. 14.7% in Dc).

Then your fact is wrong on POC. POC includes Blacks, therefore FFX percentage of POC is 47% while DC is 60%, going with your numbers.

You are right.

Although it's important to also recognize that, at 47%, FFX has more diversity than the suburban stereotype.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an immigrant and POC and there is a significantly higher percent of us in NoVa than there is dc proper. Facts are hard I know.

DP but what are the facts? There is a significantly higher percentage of POC in NoVa than in DC? Or there is a significantly higher percentage of immigrant?

There are more Asians and Hispanics (20.2% and 16.4% respectively) in FFX than DC (11% Hispanic, 4% Asian), but fewer blacks (10% vs. 45%). Significantly more immigrants in FFX (31% vs. 14.7% in Dc).

Then your fact is wrong on POC. POC includes Blacks, therefore FFX percentage of POC is 47% while DC is 60%, going with your numbers.

PP referred to being an "immigrant and POC," so her reference was presumably was to those who fell in both categories. For you to assert her "fact is wrong" suggests you need to read more carefully.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an immigrant and POC and there is a significantly higher percent of us in NoVa than there is dc proper. Facts are hard I know.

DP but what are the facts? There is a significantly higher percentage of POC in NoVa than in DC? Or there is a significantly higher percentage of immigrant?

There are more Asians and Hispanics (20.2% and 16.4% respectively) in FFX than DC (11% Hispanic, 4% Asian), but fewer blacks (10% vs. 45%). Significantly more immigrants in FFX (31% vs. 14.7% in Dc).

Then your fact is wrong on POC. POC includes Blacks, therefore FFX percentage of POC is 47% while DC is 60%, going with your numbers.

Anonymous wrote:22307 skewed more conservative than most

22307 includes Belle Haven which is a pretty conservative neighborhood.