And yes, Virginia is a Southern state.
Not anymore. It's more of a mid-Atlantic state now and in the last two elections it voted almost exactly as the nation.
Virginia has nothing in common anymore with South Carolina or Mississippi.
This is ridiculous. Virginia remains a southron state. It's primary electorate remains very southron: its Black community is clearly southern and many white Democrats, particularly outside of NoVa, are culturally southern.
Maryland and Delaware have also substantial black populations. Are they southern states too?
And the southern parts of the state (the "real Virginia") are having less and less electoral influence with each passing election.
Yes; at least, large swathes of Delaware and Maryland are culturally southern. I don't think this is up for dispute. The only people who think this isn't the case either don't know much about Maryland's history or have never been there. I've never been to either state but I've read enough to say with some confidence that it retains a distinctly Southern character.
Most Americans don't understand this but Baltimore is more culturally southern than the DC metro area; its white working class migrants tended to come from rural farming communities in the South rather than Europe. Hence the bizarre "Balmer" accent that has a distinctly Southern twang.
Anyways, African-Americans throughout the US are Southern, for the most part. They were either born in the South, have parents who were born in the South or are the grandchildren of migrants from the South.
