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DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts) Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:41 PM Jul 2013

question about Ken C and Northern Virginia

My friend lives in the VA side of DC. He says that North Virginia is actually quite liberal, and thus, the people from the rest of the state tend to be more Dixie-ish, as they fear Northern VA might hook up with DC and become a more Northern state. Is there truth to this?

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question about Ken C and Northern Virginia (Original Post) DonCoquixote Jul 2013 OP

Don't know that there's fear NoVa might hook up with DC, elleng Jul 2013 #1

Yes it's true rightsideout Jul 2013 #2

How did he get elected? JPZenger Jul 2013 #3

elleng

(131,063 posts)

1. Don't know that there's fear NoVa might hook up with DC,

Reply to DonCoquixote (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2013, 11:46 PM

Jul 2013

but its certainly true that NoVa is significantly different from rest of the state. NoVa = DC suburbs, = those employed IN DC = lots of Dems.

rightsideout

(978 posts)

2. Yes it's true

Reply to DonCoquixote (Original post)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 01:10 AM

Jul 2013

I live in Maryland and have lots of Liberal friends who live in Northern Virginia. My wife works in Northern VA in Alexandria and alot of her coworkers are on the Liberal side judging from discussions I've listened to at her work parties.

I also have some energy sustainable friends who live in solar homes in the mountains of Virginia and they are pretty liberal. So you have pockets of liberals in southern and central Virginia and quite a few Liberals in Northern Virginia.

Those of us in the MD/DC/VA area were watching VA closely during the last election hoping it would go blue since a Northern VA has a big population and tends to be Liberal.

Also affecting Northern VA are federal govt jobs. There are tons of Federal contractors depending on federal contracts. The Republicans want to cut alot of programs that employ these workers so they tend to vote for who is going to keep that money coming.

I'm not sure about the state's capitol in Richmond. Could be mostly red. I don't know.

JPZenger

(6,819 posts)

3. How did he get elected?

Reply to rightsideout (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 23, 2013, 08:42 AM

Jul 2013

Yes, NoVa includes large numbers of people from other states and from other countries. Tidewater includes a large armed services population. The rest of the state is more native-bred.

The question of the day- how did Cuccinelli get elected to the senate from NoVa?

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