Buckner purposely launched Relay in the locavore capital of the world: Charlottesville, Virginia, where the philosopher king and queen of the movement, Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, have devoted much time.

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He also narrowly won Virginia, home to the capital of the old Confederacy, and a state that has not voted Democratic in a presidential election since 1964.

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This year the federal capital gains rate is 15% plus a Virginia state tax rate of 5.75%.

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And when Queen Elizabeth II was in the United States just last spring for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, she followed the same path Virginia's colonial-era capital did -- and traveled right on up the road to Williamsburg.

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In 1995, supporters of gambling in Virginia hired 48 lobbyists, from nearly every lobbying firm in the state capital, in a bid to legalise riverboat casinos.

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General Dynamics currently has 5, 000 engineers and draftsmen at work in and around Groton designing the next generation of ballistic-missile subs, and an additional 2, 000 tradesmen assembling Virginia-class attack subs, so the town is on firm ground in calling itself the submarine capital of the world.

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