text:  Democrat-run states. And Maryland is different because Maryland has Washington, D.C. right there. Virginia has Washington, D.C. right there. Virginia did make a little U-turn as far as governance not too long ago when they put Glenn Youngkin in the statehouse and made Virginia more palatable to live in. When I moved to Washington, D.C., I chose to live in Germantown, Maryland. I didn't know anything about the area.