Virginia was relatively late to the secession party, but it is fair to call it the heart of the Confederacy. After all, it provided a disproportionate number of the South’s leaders, resources, and battlefields, as well as its capital.
Today, Virginia is a blue state—the only one in the Confederacy. The GOP candidate for governor doesn’t even mention his party affiliation in his commercials, even though he is a Trump acolyte.
How would our nation’s history have been different if Virginia had been a blue state in 1861? The mind boggles at the thought of it