There has been some chatter about the prospect of counties in the western part of Virginia seceding from Virginia and becoming part of West Virginia.
Rather than the Christian gentlemen typical of the South, the new leaders are a trans-friendly female governor, a female Muslim lieutenant governor, and a black man so morally disfigured he has declared his desire to see violence visited upon his political opponents and their children. And the army they lead is a horde of Yankeefied invaders that infests the bureaucracy of the federal government and has settled into the once-splendid northern part of the State…
Abigail Spanberger defeated Winsome Earle-Sears in the popular vote 57.2% to 42.6%. However, the former won only 49 counties out of 133. Thus, Ms Spanberger was declared governor despite winning only a little better than one-third of the State’s counties, 36.8%, to Ms Earle-Sears’s 63.2%. The elections for lieutenant governor and attorney general had similarly disproportionate results.
This is an injustice to the conservative rural counties that make up the great bulk of Virginia, suppressing their voting power in favor of the urban counties, and it must remedied.
It is difficult to imagine secession truly occurring. But it also would have been difficult to envision the tragedy now unfolding in the state of Virginia.
TC, I live in a rural Virginia county. We are represented in congress by a very good conservative. I haven’t heard the chatter you speak of but it does sound sensible and intriguing albeit probably out of reach. Who knows ?
Yes, the 2025 election results in Virginia were extremely disappointing. Maybe this idea is the answer.
The chatter I had seen was online over the last week, mostly in reaction to the election. We had previously discussed Oregon, Fred, and it seems that state has a process that is fairly amenable to secession–at least, that is what has been represented. I doubt it would be easy in Virginia.