Southside Virginia

And then lastly, the hardest for Democrats is the fifth.

much more rural district in Southside, Virginia.

So Virginia one, two, and five.

And then there's two seats around Indy and around Lexington, Kentucky.

And in some states, it actually already is getting worse.

For an example, over in Virginia, good old Abigail Spamburger.

Spamburger.

She apparently... restored the rights, the voting rights, of dead felons.

Yeah.

Right.

Well, now there's a delegate, a Southside Virginia lawmaker, who is demanding an investigation after Biscuit the dog got his voting rights restored after being dead for five years.

Delegate Tom Garrett of Buckingham received a letter from the constituent who owned the pet, is now calling for an investigation into how Governor Abigail Spanberger could have restored voting rights and jury service rights.

I teach them in a variety of places.

Right now, I teach them as part of my regular duties at Hampton-Sydney College, which is a men's college in Southside, Virginia, so south of Richmond.

And I teach at the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest, which is a school within a school, if you will, also teach in the politics department.

But whatever subject I'm teaching, I present students with a problem.

And when the Senate was evenly divided between the two parties, when there were 20 Democrats and 20 Republicans, and the lieutenant governor basically tipped the body one way or another.

Susan is from Lawrenceville, Virginia in Brunswick County, Southside, Virginia, an important area in terms of the state's political history as it moved from a rural dominated state to a suburban dominated state.

Her legacy includes.

not only a big hand in supervising, insisting in supervising the renovation of the Jefferson-designed Capitol that started in the, actually I guess it was the late McDonald administration and continued into the Kane administration, actually concluded on the hours before Queen Elizabeth visited Richmond, and also the replacement of the General Assembly Building, that brand spanking new tower that looms over Capitol Square.

Right.

But the rest of the district is very red outside of the Charlottesville area, except there is a sizable black population that is pretty Democratic-leaning in Southside, Virginia, and Danville is down here.

But still, nonetheless, this seat is more like Trump plus 10, 12 territory.

So it is redder than like Trump plus five at first.

District 5 has mostly been a stable Republican seat since 2000.

It covers much of Central and Southside Virginia.

Most of it is rural, but it also includes the cities of Charlottesville, Danville, and Lynchburg, and many of its voters are college students.

McGuire has consistently supported President Donald Trump's agenda during his first term in Washington.

And we're now taking nominations for Father Christmas.

Father Christmas is when we select fathers, used to be just in Central Virginia, but now I know we're down in Hampton Roads, I think we're, uh, Southside Virginia as well, and, uh, each of those, uh, those guys gets a little helping hand.

We give them each a, uh, $500 check, and they can use that money for anything that they wanna use that money for.

But we also take care of the gifts for the, uh, for the family, and that is a, uh, pretty doggone good thing.

He raised money from Black fraternal organizations across Virginia and published the first photographs of the four prisoners.

He hired white attorneys because Southside Virginia's legal culture in 1895 required it.

He covered the case in the Planet without stopping.

The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals reversed the women's convictions.