Title: Why is Virginia becoming so liberal? - Quora
Headings: Why is Virginia becoming so liberal?
Why is Virginia becoming so liberal?
Content: The more rural parts of the state have retained their conservative heritage, but the population growth has favored urban areas over farms, so the majority of people have grown more open minded. Women and minorities have more say and sway over politics, business, and life in general than they once did, and that has further limited both the appeal and power of conservatives. Mind you, I wouldn’t personally call Virginia liberal, and the voting record is more purple or mixed, but you are correct in that it is less conservative than it once was. Can’t say I mourn that, but it is a free country and everyone is entitled to their own preferences and opinions. Ernest W. Adams
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Answered 4 years ago · Author has 31.5K answers and 193.2M answer views
Urbanization. Washington D.C. is constrained to be 10 miles square, so a heck of a lot of the government buildings and the homes of the people who work there are in the adjacent states, one of which is Virginia. The government attracts people not just from all over the USA but from all over the world. That provides variety, and wherever you have a wide variety of kinds of human beings, liberalism flourishes and conservatism retreats into the countryside. Get used to it; the same thing happened to ancient Rome.