The problem with Virginia is the same as states like Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Michgan. One area controls the state.
Here on the West Coast it's Seattle and environs for WA and Portland and environs for OR. The division is referred to West Side vs East Side (of the Cascades).
On another thread the 13 best cities for Conservatives included Spokane which is the largest city in eastern WA and usually loyally Republican, but the remainder of the East Side is rural and we have a devil of a time overcoming the Liberalism of the West Side.