Living by identity politics? Die by it too
The Democratic Party, pre-occupied with the politics of identity, is now hobbled by it, with the unearthing of the skeletons in the closets of Virginia's top leaders
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FOR many Democrats, the Commonwealth of Virginia represents the future of their political party. For several decades, Virginia - where the capital of the Confederacy of the slave-owning southern states during the American Civil War was located - was considered to be a solid "red" or Republican-leaning state. It is now in the process of turning into a Democratic-leaning one, raising the hopes that one day even Texas, currently a southern GOP bastion, would change its political colour to "blue".
Indeed, a large influx of immigrants, federal government workers and educated professionals into the northern part of the state (bordering Washington, DC) have provided Democrats in Virginia with huge political momentum, which has created the conditions for major electoral victories.
Hence, a state where it had been illegal in the 1950s for a white person to marry an African-American voted for Hillary Clinton for president and is now represented in the Senate by two Democrats.
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