I posted this on the Washington Post in the comments section in response to some others, but I doubt I'll get much feedback. A little background. Terry McAullife, Brian Moran, and Creigh Deeds are running for the Democratic nomination. McAullife and Moran are from the Northeast and have only lived in Northern "Virginia", which consists of the government and mostly wealthy Northerners who want to get bigger houses for less money. I resent all this. I don't want Virginia to become another boring, left-wing, Northeastern state with no since of history. Here's what I wrote and the comments that preceded them.
>Someone is calling Terry McAuliffe a 'carpet bagger'? Hello, get informed!
Terry McAuliffe is absolutely a carpet bagger. He's only lived in Virginia because he worked in DC. And only in Northern "Virginia" at that.
>Please be kinder to those who use the term "carpetbagger". They are either the real or pretender "southern gentry" whose wealth and power are being threatened by the likes of President Obama, Senator Warner, Governor Kaine and soon to be governor McAuliffe.
You need to be kinder because they have been so brainwashed by the "southern gentry" that they can't understand the new progressive Virginia, or they are the "old south" where their bigotry and control is being washed away by those who fervently believe that all have an equal opportunity to seek whatever they can achieve.
Problem 1: Actually, as NOVA is the yankee enclave, and people in NOVA on average make a full TWICE as much as the rest of Virginia, it is actually the carpetbaggers who have the money and the power. Do me a favor. Go to Western Virginia. Find the poorest coalmining town you can. Tell the people there what you just said about Virginians who are proud of their Southern heritage. Proceed to run like hell.
Problem 2: About our bigotry, remind me what state was fine with a black man leading then a full 20 years before the rest of the country. That was before this "new Virginia" you are talking about.
Problem 3: As for this old Virginia that you seem to be eager to destroy, you are talking about the state that did the larger share of the founding of this nation, boasting the author of the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, 4 of the first 5 presidents and all of first 4 good ones. The leader during the revolution, "liberty or death", most of the religious freedom and separation advocates, and more.
This new Virginia exists mostly in your little enclave of gated communities and luxury condos where you and your fellow your fellow carpetbaggers live. "
For any carpetbaggers and/or Northern Virginians who read this (and perhaps envy me living in Richmond, where all of Virginia's culture is ;), know that I don't necessarily hate you as individuals. Some of my best friends are within these categories. But I hate that Northern Virginia has become the overpriced suburban wasteland that it has, and those yankees who dare to move south of there and then complain about how we're all a bunch of rednecks. They really need to leave or deal with it. You don't go into someone else's house and complain about the decor.
