Living by identity politics? Die by it too

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 prof…