Appalachia Anon here. I'm from Virginia, and while I'm pulling other duty keeping my compatriots and local community sane right now, I figured I'd pop in to report on things.
SWVA is deeply Red as a product of the fact the area was so devastated by Democrats controlling the entire South for many, many decades. So the people who escaped the yoke of poverty by working their butts off as farmers, then coal miners, all vote Red. Despite this, there's quite a few VERY vocal "liberals" who are nothing more than unmedicated people who need serious psychiatric help. I'm not saying that being Liberal makes them crazy, but I am saying that being crazy is what makes them liberal. Every single one of them, without fail, comes from a red-voting, Trump loving patriotic family but they were always the "black sheep" of the family. When everyone else was working in the garden, they were talking shit on tumblr. Or whatever the equivalent of "tumblr" was for the handful of GenZ and Boomer "liberals" who did so many drugs in the 60s they became lifelong burnouts. Even the opioid addicts tend to vote Red, even the ones drawing food stamps or state medicaid/medicare. Why? Because despite it, they all "work for a living" in one way or another. Even those who are physically disabled or their body has broken down from 10-15 years in the coal mines, they still see themselves as "working" class people.
I'm saying all this to give context to the psychology of the region in both SWVA and Virginia as a whole outside of Fairfax counties where "the rig" happens.
Virginia itself has ALWAYS been a deeply, deeply red-voting state full of patriots. However, due to the fact it's literally CIA HQ, Virginia is basically the California of the East Coast. All that money and power, and the voices of the citizens gets overrun by illegals in a handful of key locations completely rigged and controlled by the Deep State.
Virginia's people were very willing to go vote Youngkin but I know for many (and I have talked to VERY many), regardless of age demographic, they feel it was almost pointless. Even the ones who did go vote did it because "I have to do what I can." Like I said, they believe that if you want something in life you need to work to get it.
The people in VA are cautiously optimistic but after the 2020 election, whether they vote Republican, Democrat, or go back and forth, NO ONE believes the elections are fair. Even the Republicans and conservatives who are cautiously optimistic about Youngkin winning feel like they're getting their hopes up for nothing.
The Great Awakening is here.
That great big "slap a wake-up call in the mouth of everyone" is working. The Deep State went from being able to destroy the Twin Towers and start a multi-decade Forever War to steal $20 trillion of your grandkids' money to not even being able to rig an election in their own backyard without several MILLION people knowing they're running operations. Even the people who "agree" with them know they're doing it and, whether strategically or not, Youngkin lightly distancing himself from Trump (not forcefully, but passively) has helped sway very many "life-long Democrats" to vote Youngkin this time.
Anons, say a prayer for Virginia, especially Southwest Virginia and the Coalfields. I know that if "the fix is in" for another Swamp creature as Governor, they'll retaliate against working-class parents like Newsom did in California.
The next time I post, like always, I'll go back to not even identifying myself as Appalachia Anon like I always do.css But I do occasionally, like now, identify myself as such specifically to show that I know what I'm talking about from personal experience. And from personal experience: if a Deep State puppet wins Governorship of Virginia, the race towards the edge of the cliff will only accelerate.css
Praise Jesus Christ, King of All Creation