>Virginia remained in the blue column in 2024 as Vice President Harris carried the state but only by 51% of the vote. Her voting strength came mainly from the southeastern counties, including the Richmond metro area, the government employee-heavy NorVa counties, and Charlottesville with former President Trump dominating every other area. The Old Dominion, the capital of the Confederacy, was a Solid South Democrat stronghold until the 1950s. Virginia then voted Republican in all but one presidential election from 1952 to 2004 and it was the only Southern state Jimmy Carter failed to carry in 1976. Since 2008 however it has been a reliably Democrat state in presidential elections and former Virginia governor Tim Kaine served as Hillary Clinton's running mate in the 2016 election.
>>489082670Good thing trump is going to clear out about a million democrats from the state when the fires them from their governmnet jobs or moves their departments to bumbfuck nebraska.
Specifically, the last presidential election where all of the eleven Confederate states voted Democrat was 1944 with the last time they all voted Republican being 2004.
>>489082670I thought it just flipped in 2016 but see that you are right about the presidential flip in 2008, maybe I was thinking of the Senate?
>>489082670>>50 years of red>>in one election goes blue and never changes backTotally not fraud being instituted in the wake of one victory so the state magically barely lands on blue everytime.
In the old days (eg. look at the 1976 election map) Richmond and NorVa were the Republican strongholds in the state while the rural counties were Democrat whereas today it has flipped. Also note that prior to the civil rights era Virginia like most of the South had very limited enfranchisement, most people except the white elite class couldn't even vote.
>>489087359A lot of the older generation here still supported democrats even after the political 180. My grandfather in Nelson country was a staunch Democrat up until he died in 1993. I think it was just party loyalty and not understanding how they parties changed.
>>489086496Not fraud, it's just that all the government workers in NorVa had more to gain from a Democrat president than they do Trump.
I blame Chris Chan
>>489086496Virginia is a weird one. It's borders pretty much include DC Yankees, old South, new South and Appalachia. There are a lot of people with nothing in common living in Virginia.
>>489082810>clear out about a million democrats from the state when the fires them from their governmnet jobs or moves their departments to bumbfuck nebraskaThis, and deport the slave labor pool imported by nova. There is no fucking way that many squatamalans are living there in this country legally. Its nothing but feds, contractors and lawyers.
>>489086496Go to VA my guy, Norfolk has a fuck load of nigs, nova is tree humpers as far as the eye can see, and richmond is a college liberal shithole (at least they kinda cleaned up the park)The rest is derelict shitholes or uber-rich who fucked off from the cities.As nova grows and old money dies itll only get further blue.
>>489088121My family has lived here for 300+ years and my voice matters less than the liberals that moved here 18 months ago .
The Solid South used to be heavily preserved through mass voter disenfranchisement, which contrary to some memes was not limited exclusively to blacks but also poorer whites mostly couldn't vote either. Consequently only richfags had enfranchisement and this system at last began to break down in the 50s which enabled the South to begin switching away from a Democrat monoculture.
>>489088336LBJ pushing civil rights didn't do them any favors though.
Anyway, NorVa really has been a glowie place going back to the 50s so that's nothing new. What's mostly different about today is that Trump has run on a platform that's explicitly hostile to those people which wasn't the case with previous Republican administrations (why would they hate Bush? he gave them the liberty to probe your anus at the airport).
>>489082670all over the US its the same, the democrats only need to have niggers rig the inner-cities to carry the entire state, and accuse everyone of "racism" when they try to investigate what's happening
>>489087628Up until Trump, the parties had really only changed on the issue of race. Trump's recasting of the Republicans puts them a good bit closer to the Southern Democratic line than they had been before, mainly in regard to the Jacksonian populism, but also on some Jeffersonian issues, like with RFK's lines promoting small family farms against big ag. The longer the Republican party relies heavily on the South, the more likely this tendency is to take hold.
>>489089351>JacksonianHonestly I think if Jackson was alive today he would probably be a libertarian, Jefferson too.
>>489089351The Republican platform over time and especially since the 90s became increasingly South-focused which contributed to their gradual disappearance in regions like New England, because in order to play to Southern sensibilities you need to be loud, aggressive, and crude at the cost of putting off the more mannered regions of the country. Last time they did anything in New England was 1988 as they had George H.W. Bush who was that kind of polite Yankee WASP that doesn't really exist anymore.
>>489087359NoVA was mostly military back thennow it's tech gov contractor neolib hellhole
>>489089933Ask me how I know you are a democrat from New England.
>>489089908They'd be with Ron Paul, for sure. But Trump's a lot closer to that way of thinking than any major-party nominee's been for decades.>>489089933There are the stylistic issues, but I think that ideologically the crypto-Dixiecrat line plays better in the Midwest, on balance, than the Yankee Republican one. Of course Romney didn't win, but that's where I'd put the last gasp of the New England Republicans. And as I remember his losing was put down to the working class in Ohio not turning out for him.
As another example while he still won Utah all three elections Trump didn't do as well there as previous Republican candidates since Mormons are very polite people and he slimed their boy Mitt.
>>489089351>Trump's recasting of the Republicans puts them a good bit closer to the Southern Democratic line than they had been before, mainly in regard to the Jacksonian populismThere is a reason Jackson's bust was in the oval office. Trump is the first American political figure who has filled that role since Jackson. He knows it, and it is only now the dems are figuring this out.
>>489090684>Of course Romney didn't win, but that's where I'd put the last gasp of the New England RepublicansTechnically he was a carpetbagger from Michigan but that aside, yeah, the Bain Capital connection was not going to win friends and influence people coming on the heels of the 2008 crash.
>>489091259In the old times you had Republicans like Coolidge (also that old-fashioned mannered Yankee WASP type) who favored a limited government that did as few functions as possible. To be fair that never quite went away as Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan all conceptually at least favored limited government. The Bushes were not that, they were much more pro big government.
>>489092208>Works as head spook in the CIA.>Wants more government controlMakes sense
