All Americans recognize Virginia for the pivotal role it has played in the history of their nation. Jamestown, on the shores of James River at the southern entrance of the Chesapeake Bay, was the first permanent English settlement in North America. Less than 30 minutes away, in Yorktown, Virginia, the American Revolutionary War came to an end as Lord Cornwallis surrendered to American generals Benajmin Lincoln and George Washington.

For more than a century Virginia would play host to the largest population of the colonies and the United States and was the center of the nation’s political life. Virginia has supplied eight American presidents, including four of the first five presidents, and the state gave up a piece of land to the original District of Columbia.

Today Virginia has been radically transformed and its long-standing pioneering European majority is rapidly declining toward minority status. This deliberate process has been readily celebrated by the elite of the United States such as in this New York Times article which openly brags about non-Western immigration turning Virginia into a deeply blue state against the wishes of the founding stock.

The Great Replacement is changing Virginia from the heart of the American nation into a soulless cosmopolitan entity that only a large-scale repatriation can hope to reverse.

The Current Situation:

In 1960 Whites held a 79.2% share of Virginia’s population, an increase on the 75.3% share that Whites held in the 1940 census. Still, with the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act and subsequent waves of mass immigration, the population of Virginia has changed quite radically. As of the 2020 census White Virginians make up just 58.6% of the state’s population and this share is shrinking quite rapidly.

Between 1990 and 2022 the foreign-born population of Virginia has tripled. Today there are more than 1.1 million immigrants representing 12.5% of the state’s populace, the majority of whom are from outside the West. 61% of Virginia’s immigrants are non-Western and this share has grown nearly five-fold from the 1960s.

For broader context, Virginia was 79.2% White and 20.6% Black in 1960. These two historic groups, both of which had been present from the state’s earliest days, comprised 99.8% of the state’s population at the time. Today Virginia is 8.5% Asian, 10.5% Hispanic, and 3% Indian and other.

And Virginians are funding their own replacement. The state government offers healthcare for non-citizens under Virginia’s Medicaid program and provides immigrants, including illegal immigrants, with access to grants and tuition assistance at Virginia’s public schools and universities. The state has even gone so far as to establish a dedicated Office of New Americans (ONA) which is tasked with promoting the economic and civic success of Virginia’s growing immigrant population.

As current trends stand historic Virginians, the pioneering stock, will become a minority in Virginia before the year 2040, according to the Weldon Cooper Center. At which point the state is likely to see politics similar to that of Hawai’i, a state which is already majority-minority, where the state’s Supreme Court ruled recently that residents do not have a right to carry a firearm as it is not in accordance with the “principles of Aloha”.

Policy Options:

Like the other state sin our series covering the US, such as California or New York, Virginia has policy options which it could both implement and push for itself that could radically reverse the Great Replacement in the state and initiate a process of immigration and repatriation.

The first place to start is by passing E-Verify and SAVE laws which would require that both employers and local governments check the immigration status of residents of Virginia. This move alone would make it impossible for the state’s estimated 251,000 illegal aliens to work or access public benefits in the state. Additionally, these illegal aliens could be required to take their underage children back to their home country with them, as a policy of child separation rarely works to maintain a cohesive family. This would remove a further 91,567 first generation immigrants from the state and bring the total of departures to 342,567 people.

The state could further pass laws like those of Florida and Louisana which limit the ability of non-citizens to buy, rent, or lease property within the state(s). These laws would allow Virginia to go around the Federal governments power to issue and retract visas, and enable the state to effectively declare itself off-limits to non-Americans.

The removal of visa holders would result in a further 300,000 people departing the state, bringing the total to roughly 650,000 people. Presumably, though, these immigrants would also take their children with them, meaning a portion of the remaining 410,000 immigrant descended children would also depart the state.

These two policy actions alone would increase the White Virginian share of the population to 67% of the state’s overall populace, a 9% increase from the current 58.5% share they currently hold.

A final policy option would be for the state to investigate cases of suspected immigration and naturalization fraud, both of which are widespread.

Some 70% of immigrants in the United States are admitted on the basis of family ties, not for work or school.

This means that a large portion of people who have acquired US citizenship are likely to have done so fraudulently. The proof for this is best demonstrated by a 2008 investigation wherein the U.S. State Department discovered, through DNA testing, that over 80% of individuals admitted into the U.S. as family members of a “refugee” were not related to that individual.

The U.S. government has since mandated DNA testing for refugees who request their family members come to the U.S.

However, this DNA testing mandate has not been put in place for any other category of family reunification.

Simply by requiring proof that immigrants are related through marriage and birth certificates, and DNA testing, it is likely that a substantial portion of naturalized citizens in Virginia, and in the U.S. as a whole, could have their citizenship revoked on the grounds of fraud.

Presuming that the fraud rate is only half of what it was in the famous refugee case, so a rate of 40%, this would denaturalize a further 300,000 immigrants in Virginia and raise the White share of the population yet further, to about 70% and inline with Virginia’s historic average.

Conclusion:

Virginians, and Americans more broadly, have a wide set of policy options at their disposal to both arrest demographic change and reverse the process through repatriation and safeguarding natives through adept changes to executive and legislative policy.

Many of these policies could be put in place at the order of a skilled governor and would not require legislative approval, though legislative changes are certainly needed.

The more Americans understand that there are very real policy options which could preserve their historic majority in the United States, the closer they come to making these policy changes a reality.