The motto of Virginia, the Mother of Presidents, one of our founding colonies, and the birthplace of American Republicanism, is Sic Semper Tyrannis: Thus Always to Tyrants, with Lady Liberty standing over one of them in the state coat of arms.
The Commonwealth initially resisted the genius of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The republican gentry were not keen on swapping a tyrannical king for a tyrannical federal government. Virginia became the main battleground for the American Civil War. Virginia served as a major heartbeat for the United States of America, since many of the politicians serving in Congress have their second homes in the Old Dominion.
The last time the state went Republican during a Presidential election, Bush won the state 54-46. It’s a Southern State, and one would think that Republicans would dominate, but the problems were already breaking out. Bush expanded the surveillance state, then increased the federal bureaucracy with No Child Left Behind, the Department of Homeland Security, and massive spending. Northern Virginia took in more swamp creatures, shifting the state blue in 2008 with no turning back.
Democrats kept chipping away at the once-Republican stronghold: two Democrat US Senators, then the executive branches, electing Democratic governors in 2013 and 2017. Virginia was the only state in the South with a Democratic trifecta in 2019, despite Governor Ralph Northam’s abortion depredations and blackface scandal, as well as scandals from the lieutenant governor and the attorney general.
In 2021, Glenn Youngkin turned things around. He, with his Republican executive colleagues, reversed Democratic tyranny with some order back to the Commonwealth, cutting the taxes, revoking the DEI madness, and ending the violation of parental rights.