A page-one story in Sunday’s Washington Post describes Virginia as a “purple state.”

I live here… it’s about as purple as the Jolly Green Giant.

The way I’d describe Virginia is a red state with an embarrassing blotch of dark blue at the top, and unfortunately that blotch blotches out the lower 95 percent of the commonwealth where real Virginians (read: real Americans) live. The blue blotch is where Beltway types and various overpaid government employees and contractors live alongside five or six of us who’ve actually traveled through flyover country.

This was one of the many things I didn’t realize before moving here but discovered quickly upon crossing the blue border into enemy territory.

Trouble is the government types are spreading like locusts across the state.

The real part of the state.

Dear Lord, please don’t let us become another Maryland.