NoVa and RoVa: Welcome to a State Of Disagreement

Good to see that Rural-bashing and the classic urban bigotry is alive and well. Just about what I would expect from people willing to sit in traffic for hours every day to drive 10 miles to and from wotk.

By PhilDeLaneyWV | Oct 18, 2006 6:17:35 AM | Request Removal

I guess there isnt enough news in the world for the Washington Post to report on. What an obvious, immature, cliched thing to write--like something in a high school yearbook.

By eric | Oct 18, 2006 6:44:17 AM | Request Removal

What next? Ethnic jokes. This truly disgusts me.

By gordohk | Oct 18, 2006 6:54:49 AM | Request Removal

To the Editors, I think this article is juvenile and uncalled for. Its a slap in the face to all of Virginia. To me, it borders on racism, and is reflective of the snooty attitude the Style Section has shown for years. What makes you think youre so superior?

By gsantoro | Oct 18, 2006 7:14:42 AM | Request Removal

How stupid is the WP to bite the hand that feeds it? There are many in NoVa with roots in RoVa. As one, I am disgusted and offended by this juvenile and ignorant article. Even though I grew up in RoVA, the WP was always in our home. In fact, my father taught me to read using the WP. After this article, I will NEVER purchase another copy of this rag.

By JackESpratt | Oct 18, 2006 7:23:52 AM | Request Removal

Have any of you anonymous writers ever been outside northern Virginia? For that matter, have you ever been outside the beltway? Keeping in the vein of your pointless and sophomoric insults: you are idiots. I cancelled the paper Post long ago, now perhaps I am done with the Post online which has apparently become a venue for the rants of junior hacks. The New York Times does internet better anyway, and is worth paying for. As I write this, looking at the posting rules below, Id say your piece violates your editors standards. You ought to be fired. Dean Lake

By dtlake | Oct 18, 2006 7:28:04 AM | Request Removal

What a croc, which by the way means the same thing in NoVA as it does in RoVA. I cant believe the editors of this paper would allow a bashing, hateful, article to be written. The staff, which in NoVA means the working group, and in RoVA means a big wuppin stick should be fired, or wupped. This is a disgrace, do you actually believe that people who live in the RoVA as you call it are a bunch of illerate rednecks who get together every friday for a hoe down, and maybe a cross burning here and there. You ignorant bunch of holier than thou attitude yahoos btw I dont mean the web page. If you did not know there are some of the oldest largest and most respect institutes of higher learning in the state of Virginia. There is art and culture throughout this state, and if you havent got off your lazy arse to find this out then please keep your mouth shut, oh and btw the NRA headquarters is located in NoVA off of Waples Mills Road in Fairfax, and furthermore I am a lifetime member. Stick that in your Starbucks and drink it. KMA in VA.

By jdavis793 | Oct 18, 2006 7:54:17 AM | Request Removal

The next time NoVA legislators try to get the pressing needs of our area addressed I suspect they will be shown this article. Thanks a lot folks!

By laxtwo | Oct 18, 2006 8:17:28 AM | Request Removal

Youve got to be kidding, Washington Post, with your NoVa / RoVa piece. How do you expect anyone to want to take you seriously when your idea of a joke is about RoVa meth labs? You used to be a good paper. What happened? I will be moving from Berkeley Ca to Arlington in the next 3 years and this NoVa snob-thing is revolting. Perhaps it is time for your editorial staff et al to stop, reflect, pray, meditate, WHATEVER, to get their !#@* together and start putting together a real NEWSpaper, with respect, humility and purpose!

By daquilarive | Oct 18, 2006 8:25:55 AM | Request Removal

Does anyone else find it ironic that the WP insults the good people of Virginia in the C Section on the very same day that it tells them who to vote for in the A Section???? Im sure that undecided voters in RoVA are going to respectfully consider the WPs Senatorial endorsement after receiving this lovely bashing at the WPs hands on the very same day. NOT!

By JackESpratt | Oct 18, 2006 8:31:08 AM | Request Removal

Im a long time reader of the Post and this has got to be one of the most offensive and disgusting pieces of tripe Ive ever read. I hail from south eastern Virginia and am quite proud to be of working class stock. Your assumptions that anyone who lives south of the Rappahanock and west of Rt. 15 is an uneducated hick, who cooks up illegal drugs in their mobile home and only ever eats wild games are egregiously mistaken. I suggest that you take a gander at what the wonderful state of Virginia truly has to offer before you mouth off about something of which you abviously have no knowledge. Michelle Lee McDaniel, native born Virginian

By mcdanielm | Oct 18, 2006 9:19:58 AM | Request Removal

This one made my day! My husband and I attended a wedding some years ago south of Richmond. The groomsmen, my husband included, were from Northern Virginia. All of the brides guests and her parents kept calling our group from the grooms side non-Virginians. We laughed about it and hoped that their thicker southern accents were actually saying northern Virginians. Maybe not.

By sue | Oct 18, 2006 9:22:10 AM | Request Removal

As a product of NoVa WT Woodson, class of 1981, and a resident of RoVa for the past twelve years -- currently in a college town in the Shenandoah Valley where the Post thinks enough of our discretionary income to take time to give us our own edition of the TV listings -- I found this boorish, insensitive, and completely lacking in the quality of content and intellect I expect from this paper. Thanks for confirming why I gleefully decamped from the morass that is the DC area, never to return.

By marycknapp | Oct 18, 2006 9:27:29 AM | Request Removal

The principle difference between NoVA and RoVA is that most of the people in NoVA were born and raised somewhere else.

By ronjaboy | Oct 18, 2006 9:48:38 AM | Request Removal

As is typical, the responses indicate a distinct lack of sense of humor in the DC area and mighty thin skin. This piece is a bit cloddish in spots, but lighten up people!

By JOKR715 | Oct 18, 2006 9:58:12 AM | Request Removal

Yes, please distance yourselves a little more. The Commonwealth is far better without NoVa. The silly jabs taken in the article only show one of the many differences RoVa is far more dignified to lower itself to The Washington Posts standards of childish name calling. Besides, NoVa is nothing more than a locality for those that can not afford to live in D.C.

By Dchiwick | Oct 18, 2006 10:24:55 AM | Request Removal

This is highly offensive to me as a Virginian who has lived all over the state. Shame on you.

By gleahy | Oct 18, 2006 10:25:39 AM | Request Removal

Alas, I must comment on this as well. I am sure the Post staff that created this gem came from parts of the country where NPR, Bill Moyers and severed venison in an expensive restaurant is the norm. Being from Alexandria, going to school in the Valley, with friends scattered from Suffolk to Galax on over to Bristol and with kin in Roanoke, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Henrico and the Capital I am well aware of the dim view the rest of the Commonwealth has of NoVa. I hope the Style staff will take some time and find a flex car to travel around the Commonwealth and refrain from thinking ill of anyone in Virginia or else where that does not fit into their narrow view of the world.

By wolfe613 | Oct 18, 2006 10:45:33 AM | Request Removal

I continually make the argument to my New York friends that the WP should be considered as legitimate and respectable as the NY TIMES. I think I might give up on that argument after today... Nice article, Style Staff.

By dovecm11 | Oct 18, 2006 10:49:11 AM | Request Removal

If Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy wrote this, no one would think a thing about it.

By greenew | Oct 18, 2006 10:52:13 AM | Request Removal