Most Conservative Areas (Richmond, Jefferson, Bristol: living in, cost of, moving to)

[thenewtexan]

Originally Posted by badger74

https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...?ex=2953308101

This is a deep red area. That was my point. All the op has to go is search by price and she'll probably end up in an area that meets her requirements. In all honesty, it sounds like TN will be a better option.

[BOS2IAD]

Originally Posted by spencer114

Youngkin barely won because turnout was so low. 800k fewer people voted that year as opposed to the year before (when Biden won by over 400k votes).

Democrats suck at long game politics. We think voting once every 4 years is enough. It’s infuriating. Northam pulled the state into the future socially while also ushering in the biggest economic expansion in generations (largest single year investment ever in the history of the commonwealth) and preserving that legacy couldn’t get young Democrats off of the sofa to vote. Now they’ll be fired up because of all of the right wing nonsense, which will take years to undo…

Youngkin won by 64,000 votes. That's not my definition of "barely won".

BTW, word was that in red VA some polling places ran out of ballots due to the high turnout. Yet the voters waited for more ballots to arrive. I can't thank red VA enough for that.

[lionsgators]

Originally Posted by Riley.

Thank you so much Ersatz. I will check this out tonight and take a look at Washington County, too.
Don't get me wrong, I know we all have to pay taxes, but this state taxes every penny you bring in and funds the education system with the property tax. Without any substantial industry, much of the burden falls on the everyday taxpayer.

you should check out floyd county. the town of floyd reminds me of vermont, 30 years ago. it's hippies that you know are liberal, but it's not in your face. the key to VA is to move to a county near a city you like. county taxes are always going to be less than city taxes.

[lionsgators]

Originally Posted by Veritas Vincit

The 'empty land' is still subject to the rules and laws made by politicians beholden to the folks in the metropolitan areas. It doesn't matter that there's parts of VA where conservatives dominate when it comes to gun laws etc. Ask the folks in Eastern Oregon how much they like being the conservative minority in a state dominated by the residents of the Portland metro and the Willamette Valley.



Almost every political decision, argument, conflict in the world comes down to jurisdiction. And if you live in Virginia you live in a jurisdiction where Democrats get their way most of the time. Is it as one-sided as Massachusetts or New York? Nope. But no less than say Pennsylvania or New Jersey at this point i.e. states which occasionally will vote for Republicans but usually end up with Democrats.

lmao. have you ever left the NOVA bubble and explored the state in which you live? you think rules made in richmond make it to rural parts of the state? go to a bar in southwest VA, and see if they're abiding by the smoking bans. the thing is that people who care would never go to that part of VA. it's the wild west in many areas of the state. richmond merely makes suggestions.

[lionsgators]

Originally Posted by spencer114

Youngkin barely won because turnout was so low. 800k fewer people voted that year as opposed to the year before (when Biden won by over 400k votes).

Democrats suck at long game politics. We think voting once every 4 years is enough. It’s infuriating. Northam pulled the state into the future socially while also ushering in the biggest economic expansion in generations (largest single year investment ever in the history of the commonwealth) and preserving that legacy couldn’t get young Democrats off of the sofa to vote. Now they’ll be fired up because of all of the right wing nonsense, which will take years to undo…

one of the most absurd comments ever posted on the internet. for a state election, voter turnout was incredible. 700,000ish more people voted in the 2021 election for governor than in 2017. voter turnout was fantastic, and the democrats lost. they lost because rural areas had a good voter turnout. look at the statistics. this is not theory, this is fact. I'm sorry you were such a huge fan of governor blackface, but he left office in humiliation. his apologetic wok agenda has been scrapped by the much more popular youngkin.

[webster]

Youngkin is conservative, but he is not a Neo-Confederate. Ann McLean was forced to resign for becoming an apologist for the Confederacy and it appears that there were some issues with the former Sec. of Education's proposed curriculum.

[VA Outdoorsman]

The problem for many liberals is that they thought after the 2017 and 2019 'blue wave' elections, in which the Democrats managed to eek out full control of the legislative and executive branches, that Virginia was now a blue state (however the courts of Virginia still leaned Conservative this entire time).

They then got ahead of themselves and acted like we were California and proceeded to ramrod through a whole host of extremely liberal, fiscally-irresponsible and woke policies that the centrists and ancestrally conservative/traditionalist citizens of Virginia got up fed up with. There were simply no real checks on their abuse of powers other than the judicial branch.

Truth is, Virginia is very much a swing state falling whim to whichever prevailing wedge issue angers/energizes the electorate the most. It just depends on the morale of voters and who the candidates are. For a decade or so Republicans have been demoralized in Virginia and pretty much stopped voting, which seemed to give Democrats carte blanche to do what ever they wanted -- until they pushed the needle a little too far.

Today Republican-voting areas of Virginia are Redder than they ever were. Some of these areas in Southwest and South/Central Virginia used to vote more evenly between Democrats/Republicans but are today 60 to 90%+ Republican voting precincts.

The Democrats thought they couldn't lose any more in those areas but it turns out they could, and did, and still have more to lose. The Democrats are no longer viewed as the party for working people in rural VA. but instead as smug 'holier than thou' big city elites (aka NoVa) who are looking to control thought and behavior, take away constitutional rights/livelihoods and force unethical mandates down peoples throats.

During their two years of near total control of the state house (2019-20), the Democrats even managed to relinquish our laws over to California when they tied us to their ban on the sale of new gasoline vehicles starting 2035. I mean, talk about disenfranchisement! Only our elected representatives and Senators should write Virginia's laws, not unelected-by-the-people-of-Virginia bureaucrats from California. If Republicans win back the Senate at the end of this year they've stated their desire to disentangle us from the California law.

[Veritas Vincit]

Originally Posted by lionsgators

lmao. have you ever left the NOVA bubble and explored the state in which you live? you think rules made in richmond make it to rural parts of the state? go to a bar in southwest VA, and see if they're abiding by the smoking bans. the thing is that people who care would never go to that part of VA. it's the wild west in many areas of the state. richmond merely makes suggestions.

So Southwest VA still has the death penalty and doesn't tell anyone about it?

[badger74]

Originally Posted by thenewtexan

This is a deep red area. That was my point. All the op has to go is search by price and she'll probably end up in an area that meets her requirements. In all honesty, it sounds like TN will be a better option.

Tenn has terrible weather. LOts more big thunderstorms, tornados, floods and heavy rain. The mountains protect most of western VA from the most severe weather. Also Roanoke, Lynchburg and Cville are no that red. I think all went Biden. https://newsadvance.com/news/local/w...dee44194d.html

[whiskeytangofoxtrotalpha]

Basically anything above Culpeper and you are most likely leaning more blue then red.