But don't fool your self. Leave the DC metro area for rural western Virginia or leave the Triad region (Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh/Durham/RTP) of North Carolina and the prevailing attitudes in the rural parts of Virginia and North Carolina are pretty much as they have been for the last 100 years.
What Virginia and North Carolina are going through is reflective of what a lot of industrial midwest states, like Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsion, Illinois and Minnessota, Western NY State, etc,.) have been going through in which there are significant differences in views and attitudes betwee Urban/Suburban voters and small town/rural voters in which the changing economic land scape has played a significant role in creating new political divisions.