The 2021 election results made clear that “the tide goes in and the tide goes out” in Virginia, observed Prof. Stephen Farnsworth of the University of Mary Washington. “You’re looking at an environment where this was a purple state that didn’t like Trump, so it looked kind of blue for a while. That tide made us think perhaps … that Virginia had changed in a fundamental way. This election was much more of a return to the norm.”

2021 Political Roundtable: Surfing Va.’s red wave (Virginia Business)