Virginia has the most extreme identity crisis of any state in the Union
Above: Crystal City, Virginia THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA The dichotomy between the DC/NOVA region and the "real" Virginia keeps growing. 20 years ago or further back, you did not see such a blatant schism as you do today. Virginia both Mid-Atlantic and culturally Southern, is now really the most divided state possibly in the country . Given it's smaller geographic size in comparison to New York and California, there is is much less land mass to tolerate such opposing microcosms. The Northern most 3 counties are now deciding our presidential and state wide elections , swinging it to the left politically, while the majority of Virginia is still more like South Carolina. Someone said recently if you slapped the state of New Jersey on the back of South Carolina, that is exactly the gulf between Northern Virginia