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The recent Senate election has reignited feelings of disparity among Virginians who increasingly see themselves living in two states.
"IT IS TIME WE did something to solve the Northern Virginia problem. Let's get rid of it! Let's turn Northern Virginia into its own state....
"Their values are different. They seem to want only bigger houses, more educational degrees and less freedom. They want their children to study, not play, and they seem to delight in sitting in parked cars along freeways for hours at a time....
"I can see it now, a flag of blue flying over the Fairfax County Statehouse. In a red box in the upper left-hand corner of the flag there would be four stars surrounding a child with a schoolbook in one hand and a soccer ball in the other."
Column in the Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg
"Northern Virginians aren't Southerners, and thus not true Virginians. They seem to have little or no feeling of connection to Southern traditions and history. Moreover, [Northern Virginians] tend to feel superior to Southerners, including non-Northern Virginians....
"Charlottesville will be like West Berlin before the reunification of Germany, a city deep in the other's territory yet maintaining its ties to NoVa. Hopefully NoVa and Virginia will remain on terms sufficiently cordial that airlifting food, water and The Nation into Charlottesville will never be necessary."
Column in the Cavalier Daily, the student paper at the University of Virginia
"Perhaps it's time that Arlington, Fairfax and Alexandria severed ties with the rest of the state that uses it only for tax revenue. Perhaps it's time that these three districts join with the District at large to form a 51st state. With 5.million people in the greater DC area, this new state would be larger than Wyoming, Alabama, North Dakota and other states in population, and, due to DC and Northern Virginia's unique position in the economy as the seat of government, the site of a significant number of beltway bandit contractors, and several large international commerce hubs, the state could have an economy to rival the largest state economies."
Tom Bridge, dc.metblogs.com
