I live in Virginia for 17 plus years...

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14. But where did you live? There are multiple Virginias.

NoVa, the northern Virginia area around DC is as liberal as any place in the US. Richmond and the Norfolk/Hampton Roads area will run blue. College towns will be blue. Most of the state is red, however. Very red.

There are factions among the Republicans that can't stand each other. There is the Tea Party group that ousted Kantor and replaced him with Dave Brat.

There are the business Republicans that fight with the Tea Party Republicans in the legislature, all the time.

Some parts of Virginia are prosperous, others are dirt poor. Extreme rural poverty. Southwestern Virginia.

The black woman I am married to, although she lived in Alexandria when she first moved here, refuses to live south of the Potomac. The history sucks, like Prince William County, which closed the public schools rather than integrate. There is a wildly racist legacy in Virginia.