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Throughout the early years of the 20th century, Virginia was viewed as a Republican state. Citizens in the Commonwealth had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. In 2000, the GOP had just won the governor's race, held both U.S. Senate seats, and had majorities in both the House of Delegates and the State Senate. By 2020, all of that had been reversed. During that period, Democrats won four of five governors contests, elected two US senators, and voted for Democratic presidential candidates in every year since 2008. In 2019, the House of Delegates, where Republicans maintained a 68-32 supermajority in 2011, flipped to Democratic control. With it, the state became a Democratic trifecta, where the party controlled all of the state's levers of power. Bellwether tells the story of how this happened from someone who was "in the room at the time." David Toscano began his service in the House in 2006 and became the Democratic Leader of the body in 2011. He examines the special nature of Virginia politics, the demographic changes that underpin much of its shifting political fortunes, and the policies and personalities at the center of the state's dynamics for the last two decades.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by U.S. Senator Tim Kaine
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Harbinger of Change
Chapter 1: The Cardinal Rule
Chapter 2: Virginia Exceptionalism
Chapter 3: Race Matters
Chapter 4: Reckoning with "The Virginia Way"
Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity
Chapter 6: Pay to Play?
Chapter 7: Governors Come and Go
Chapter 8: Power in the Legislature
Chapter 9: Advocates
Chapter 10: Hot Buttons
Chapter 11: Because We Can
Chapter 12: The Power of Forty-Nine
Chapter 13: Trifecta
Conclusion: Reimagining the Virginia Way
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
