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Purple state is more accurate.
From Northern Virginia. Besides my region, Richmond and Virginia Beach the state is largely Republican. The reason we have Youngkin as governor isn't because we wanted to take a chance. It's because voter turnout for democratic areas wasn't what it was supposed to be combined with the fact that Democratic candidate ran a poor campaign.
I don't think that's true anymore. It's pretty much solidly blue at this point. VA has not voted for a Republican President since 2004 and haven't had a Republican Senator since 2006.
Sure you can take the presidential and senate elections as a data point but from someone who lives in Virginia and makes trips to see friends all over the state I can tell you it's not so black and white (or red/blue).
That’s true of any blue state though; WA, OR, CA, NY. Solidly “blue” but leave major metro areas and it’s a whole different story. It’s a shortcoming of brushing any state with a red or blue brush.
Only region where both the urban and rural populations are majority blue would be New England.
There are no areas where both urban and rural areas are red.
That's why Republicans have problems in any state with a large, dominant urban area.
Sooner or later they're going to figure out that growing urban centers are a threat to their power and start explicitly sabotaging them. If Atlanta wasn't doing so well, Georgia probably wouldn't have turned purple.