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DAVID MARCUS: Prada bag power grab as elites hijack Old Dominion

Wealthy, elite northern counties drove the vote to disenfranchise poorer southern neighbors

By David Marcus Fox News

Published April 22, 2026 11:38am EDT

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Some 163 years ago this June, the people of what is now West Virginia had had enough of the Old Dominion and the wealthy planters who thought the nation’s rules did not apply to them. As a result, today, West Virginia Republican voters have a strong voice in Congress, while those in the mother state just had theirs stripped away.

Let’s be completely clear. After Tuesday’s narrow electoral victory for the anti-American redistricting designed to give Virginia, a state that is 45% Republican, a 10-1 advantage in its House of Representatives delegation, Democrats are capable of anything, no matter how immoral or duplicitous.

And it's not just the politicians this time. It was Democratic voters, mostly in the wealthy, elite northern counties, who cynically chose to disenfranchise their poorer neighbors to the south.

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