Virginia 1960 -> 2020

[Tender Branson]

[TDAS04]

Wow SW VA has become bright red.

[Epaminondas]

Lovely aesthetics, reddening before blue snapback every 16 years.
Good tidings for 2024.

[TML]

Wow SW VA has become bright red.

Similarly, WV, SW PA (except Pittsburgh and its immediate environs), SE OH (except Athens and its immediate environs), and E KY have also become bright red.

[Non Swing Voter]

The problem for Republicans is that the entire area that reddened so deeply in the western part of the state is less than the raw vote growth in NOVA over essentially the same period of time.

If you add up all of the counties and cities west of Charlottesville it's less population than Fairfax county alone.

[Ferguson97]

The problem for Republicans is that the entire area that reddened so deeply in the western part of the state is less than the raw vote growth in NOVA over essentially the same period of time.

If you add up all of the counties and cities west of Charlottesville it's less population than Fairfax county alone.

This seems to be a recurring problem for Republicans. They continue to raise the ceiling in rural areas... the problem is that there just aren't that many people there, compared to urban and suburban parts of the state.

[OSR stands with Israel]

SW VA has come full circle :

[Non Swing Voter]

The problem for Republicans is that the entire area that reddened so deeply in the western part of the state is less than the raw vote growth in NOVA over essentially the same period of time.

If you add up all of the counties and cities west of Charlottesville it's less population than Fairfax county alone.

This seems to be a recurring problem for Republicans. They continue to raise the ceiling in rural areas... the problem is that there just aren't that many people there, compared to urban and suburban parts of the state.

The Republican Party is completely out of touch with society at large and doesn't want to accept it.  That's really the long and short of it.  Virginia is how national elections are going to look in 5 or 10 years if they don't accept this and change.  They won't though.

[Chips]

Very interesting!

[Wormless Gourd]

Looks like the reddest rurals shifted from the now-touristy Shenandoah Valley to the southwest.

[Skill and Chance]

The problem for Republicans is that the entire area that reddened so deeply in the western part of the state is less than the raw vote growth in NOVA over essentially the same period of time.

If you add up all of the counties and cities west of Charlottesville it's less population than Fairfax county alone.

This seems to be a recurring problem for Republicans. They continue to raise the ceiling in rural areas... the problem is that there just aren't that many people there, compared to urban and suburban parts of the state.

Well, it doesn't work in Virginia, but just getting rural areas writ large to vote like the reverse of the Bronx will give you a ton of power in our system.  It's enough to control the senate for a generation. 

[Non Swing Voter]

The problem for Republicans is that the entire area that reddened so deeply in the western part of the state is less than the raw vote growth in NOVA over essentially the same period of time.

If you add up all of the counties and cities west of Charlottesville it's less population than Fairfax county alone.

This seems to be a recurring problem for Republicans. They continue to raise the ceiling in rural areas... the problem is that there just aren't that many people there, compared to urban and suburban parts of the state.

Well, it doesn't work in Virginia, but just getting rural areas writ large to vote like the reverse of the Bronx will give you a ton of power in our system.  It's enough to control the senate for a generation. 

Not if that's all you're winning though.  Which is where the GOP is headed.  It gives you a huge advantage because they are dispersed in a lot of states though.  But I'm sure the GOP at some point would want to have influence beyond the senate.