• According to our ranking, Virginian women could (and should) be the most sought-after voters this November.

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  • His conservatism, staunch even by Virginian standards, puts off many businessmen and Republican-minded women.

    ECONOMIST: The Virginia governor's race

  • That battle's heroes, including four of the first five presidents of the United States, were Virginian gentlemen.

    ECONOMIST: Religion in America

  • The White House party-crashing was the first I--or probably any normal non-Virginian--had heard of Michaele or Tareq Salahi since 2005.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Proximity to the Pentagon clearly has a lot to do with why defense companies locate their headquarters in northern Virginian.

    FORBES: Why Virginia's Become Mecca For Military Contractors

  • She says she feared her husband would harm her, which, under Virginian law, is an acceptable defence for shooting him.

    ECONOMIST: Samuel Cummings

  • At twenty-eight, he married a SeaWorld dolphin trainer named Amanda Graham a native Virginian he met through their shared love of diving.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • But is it fair for a West Virginian working in the coal mines to have to put in the additional four years?

    FORBES: Rating The Deficit Panel's Dramatic Entitlement Reforms

  • Marjorie Strayer insisted she was just a Virginian on vacation in Miami.

    CNN: Mob Scene in Miami

  • Multiple local investigations are now underway and a Virginian congressman, Thomas Davis, has asked the Government Accountability Office to audit the district's tax outfit.

    ECONOMIST: Corruption strikes the capital again

  • It quoted one fictional West Virginian resident as saying he would rather go to a baseball game with Mr Ahmadinejad because "he takes national defence seriously".

    BBC: China paper carries Onion Kim Jong-un 'heart-throb' spoof

  • Born on the fringe of the Virginian planter aristocracy, George Washington became a grandee by marriage, proprietor of thousands of acres and master of hundreds of slaves.

    ECONOMIST: George Washington

  • In the spring, Markel, a Virginian insurer with a penchant for exotic risks, took over Terra Nova, a British firm that controlled eight syndicates at the time.

    ECONOMIST: Lloyd��s of London

  • His selection as head of the army was further assured by his great height and, more important, because choosing a Virginian would secure the support of the richest colony.

    ECONOMIST: George Washington

  • Pointing a finger right back at him is Todd, the West Virginian who built Birmingham from a two-mill bolt shop into the top producer of reinforcing bar for concrete.

    FORBES: Iron Wills

  • Virginian presidential hopeful Lyndon LaRouche beat him to it.

    FORBES: Soros' Bretton Woods Meeting Not So Scary

  • Had Titanic sunk more slowly, it would have been surrounded by the Frankfurt, the Mount Temple, the Birma, the Virginian, the Olympic, the Baltic and the first on the scene, the Carpathia.

    WSJ: The Real Reason for the Tragedy of the Titanic

  • For Virginian George Washington, Christmas at Mount Vernon began at dawn with a fox hunt and ended with a staggering spread of hams, beef, turkey, goose, oysters, mince pies, wine and rum punches.

    WSJ: Southern Hospitality, Wrapped Up

  • For a true West Virginian, nothing compares to sitting down to a steaming bowl of brown beans served up with a crumbly wedge of homemade cornbread (or grit bread, as we like to call it).

    NPR: Beans and Cornbread: Feeding Souls a Mile Deep

  • Sick animals often have higher white-cell counts as their bodies churn out more ammunition to fight the infection, but those in the Virginian study all came from zoos, and were believed to be hale and hearty.

    ECONOMIST: Promiscuity pays

  • Robinson in "Little Caesar"...or maybe best of all, Gary Cooper, "The Virginian" -- or Johnny Mack Brown, the Alabama running back (hero of the Rose Bowl in 1926), who now bestrode the screen as Billy the Kid.

    CNN: Excerpt: 'Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life'

  • " Less reported was that it took the Democrat about the time necessary for your average West Virginian to drive to a ballot box to clarify that statement and to add that he's "so proud of the NRA." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, even with the press's best efforts to parse his remarks, has committed himself to nothing more than a "thoughtful debate.

    WSJ: Strassel: The Real Gun-Control Consensus

  • Besides being an NRA member, Manchin ran a campaign ad in 2010 in which he promised to defend West Virginian's Second Amendment rights to bear arms and "take on" the Obama administration all while shooting a hole in a copy of a Democratic bill that would have clamped limits on greenhouse gases another sore spot for a coal-mining state like West Virginia.

    WSJ: Senators seek deal on gun-sale background checks

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