Demographic change in Virginia, Ohio, Florida

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The key thing wrt Virginia is not just the expansion of the Washington metropolitan area, but the parallel movement of the Democratic Party away from the American Liberalism as it was in the Cold War era (when it included certain - albeit often very random - pseudo social democratic influences) to something quite different. The Democratic Party is no longer any kind of threat (even if it was never more than a laughably pallid, insipid and ultimately largely fictional one) these days, while the Republican Party has been hoisted on its own petard and has become a conduit for Political Fundamentalism. And these suburban Tories, well, some of them find Political Fundamentalism every bit as scary as the Pale Pinks of the Democratic Party as it was.

Or something like that.