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Originally Posted by dougjb (Post 1846500)

"...I lived in Alexandria in the late 1960s and loved it but VA has gone down the tubes. The urban Northern Neck runs the whole state..." a quote from a commentator on this thread.

Just as a matter of clarification, the Northern Neck is not urban. It is actually quite rural. I think you mean Northern Virginia which has grown with highly educated, high income and compassionate people who care about their fellow human. It would seem that comments based upon experiences of a half century ago are not really very valid.

Virginia is a marvelous place...from its urban/suburban north to the capital area of Richmond to the rural areas of the Southwest (where the coal mines have not come back despite promises made and broken).

Anyone who comments upon Virginia without recent experience here in this great state is really just expressing an unfounded opinion. It is a state that is changing to meet the needs of its citizens!

Would be great to give northern virginia to dc and make their own state.

The Northern Neck is a great rural area along the Chesapeake Bay.

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Originally Posted by JC and John (Post 1846381)

As a Federal employee, we all looked forward to a 3 day weekend. It’s a US Federal holiday.

As a hard working person with a non government job it is a shame we must pay for government holidays with our tax money as we go to work with no paid holidays.

Maybe the government should pay every working American a days wage for these man made holidays? Everybody loves free stuff.

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Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 1846481)

One of my maternal uncles worked at Ft. Eustis and lived in Newport News and Hampton, VA from the 1940s until the 1990s. An aunt lived in Roanoke. I lived in Alexandria in the late 1960s and loved it but VA has gone down the tubes. The urban Northern Neck runs the whole state (not unlike TV running otherwise rural Sumter County). The remainder of the state is not happy about it, either.

Actually we came here from Roanoke living there for 30 years.

Once upon a time West Va split off from Va and who knows perhaps northern Va will do the same,

I was just thinking . . . who makes these crazy decisions for us? "They" just decide to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day because they want to? Because they are so WOKE and smarter than the rest of us? Did they ask anyone? Did they question their constituents? Did anyone vote for this? No. "They" just know what's better for us and our opinion doesn't matter I guess.

One of the latest despicable actions in N VA. More Va. Schools Using Kids As Guinea Pigs For Critical Race Theory

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Originally Posted by jmpalladino (Post 1846396)

John, Indigenous people of American have not been call Indian Also your sentence make no sense.

Dennis Miller said the politically correct term is Casino owning-American.

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Originally Posted by RAAndre (Post 1847208)

THEY know what is best for us. Americans are now too dumb to know what is good or bad.

Thank goodness for leaders that care about it's people.

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Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 1848702)

Virginia passes law that prevents enforcement of equipment violations

What kind of drugs are these people taking? :ohdear:
Seems they are losing more commend sense everyday.....

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Originally Posted by Going My Way (Post 1848788)

What kind of drugs are these people taking? :ohdear:
Seems they are losing more commend sense everyday.....

And more and more they are getting total control of the state.