Virginia

This site's own 2023 Census data shows a household in Loudoun County, Virginia -- the highest-income county in the country -- earning 11 times what a household earns in Las…

Two counties, four hundred miles apart, both live on money earned somewhere else. In one, a third of households receive food assistance. In the other, a third of the population…

Enslaved Africans were working in Virginia 157 years before the United States existed. Chinese laborers were mining California gold two years before California was a state. The…

American shipbuilding collapsed everywhere except four places -- and it survived in each one for a completely different reason. A trade law from 1920, a monopoly on knowledge…

Loudoun County, Virginia and Las Marías, Puerto Rico are both counted by the same Census Bureau, governed by the same federal government, and paid in the same currency. Median…

The median household in Newark earns $52,060 a year. In the same country, Palo Alto's median household earns $231,101 -- 4.4 times as much. One national unemployment number, one…

An English colony, and the first enslaved Africans brought to it, were both already in Virginia a decade before the story most Americans are taught even begins.