I get mixed signals whenever I try to research the situation in Virginia. Sometimes I get people talking about how the people of Northern Virginiastan (Fairfax, Loudon, etc.) are still stupid sheeple more concerned with outdoing there neighbors in regards to having a newer car or nicer house. Other times I find that apparently everyone from Appalachia to to Fairfax is enraged at the state of things, CRT, the trans agenda push, the election being stolen from them for the past couple decades, etc.
Then there's the thing about Virginia delegates touring Arizona and West Virginia offering to allowed most of the counties to secede and join them again, which if I understand correctly, a lot of counties (Loudon and possibly Fairfax included) are actually going to try to force a vote on secession to West Virginia if the government keeps ignoring them and acting like tyrants.
So I'm just curious, what's actually happening there? Seems to me like Virginia is in the same situation as Georgia (massive cheating overriding the voice of the people to make a moderate-dark red state seem blue), just a few steps ahead to the point that the state level government has been taken over.
I grew up in Virginia, but I moved away in 2012. I’m a historian and I am over 60 now so I know the history of their problems going back decades, some of it from personal observation.
After the Civil War, Virginia was left with a large population of freed blacks. In great measure, they moved to the urban areas because they did not want to work the land any more. Thus the larger cities have large numbers of blacks who vote Democrat. Rural areas are still mostly white. Cities like Portsmouth or Hampton are mostly black.
In The 1960s, white flight occurred due to court-ordered busing to desegregate schools. That made even more urban areas majority black.
Add to the black vote the high concentration of liberals in Northern Virginia and you end up with a Democrat advantage. The Tidewater area has a lot of military, but some of them don’t vote and sometimes their votes don’t get counted. They are mostly Republican, but not all. There’s no telling how the ones who grew up in California and other blue states will vote.
I personally don't think black people vote as blue as they'd have us believe. I'm almost certain that's a narrative manipulation tactic they use. Beyond that, Northern Virginia has to be one of the most corrupt places in the country given it's basically a DC suburb. I have no idea how bad it is, or how many actual liberals live and vote there, but I do remember there being something about 700K votes just disappearing in Virginia in the last election. Between that, Dominion vote switching, and all the other cheating that's undoubtedly been happening for the last couple decades, I'm convinced Virginia is another state being held hostage by the cabal.
The county I lived in was 55 percent black. It was also one of the top four poorest counties in the US at the time. An unbelievable number of blacks lived below the poverty line and received welfare payments, Medicaid, etc. They vote Democrat because liberals like Northam tell them that Republicans will turn off the spigot and take away their welfare.
I should also mention that Virginia has a huge and growing illegal immigrant problem, too.
Oh I'm not saying that they didn't USED to vote blue. I can believe that they actually voted that way a few decades ago. But, I think that pattern has been changing the past few election cycles. Especially with Trump doing so much for the black community and so many prominent black conservatives emerging. I believe the black population is waking up more and more every day. Beyond that, I'm almost certain most of these people don't actually vote. I have a theory that the reason democrats hold massive voter registration rallies with people that are less likely to vote is so that they have a larger pool of blank votes to draw from when they cheat. Same concept applies to the illegal problem you mentioned. More "voters" to pull from when they know they're going to lose.