OPINION: Second-Wave Suburbanization Key to Spanberger Wins in Spotsylvania, Stafford (FXBG Advance)

Opinion Column

By Stephen J. Farnsworth, Stephen Hanna and Ethan Sweeny

The politics of Northern Virginia have come to the Fredericksburg region with an Election Day roar.

Tuesday’s victories for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger in the long-time Republican bastions of Stafford and Spotsylvania counties, coupled with two Democratic flips in the region’s House of Delegate districts along Interstate 95 (the 64th in Stafford and the 66th district in Spotsylvania/Caroline) demonstrate that “the times they are a changin’” around here.

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