re: Virginia was no landslide, but I'll sure take it anyway.

To note:
Virginia has "independent cities", which technically aren't part of the surrounding county.
For example, see the large county in the middle along the NC border. That's Pittsylvania County. The small blue dot inside that is the City of Danville. Both the county and the city have roughly the same population, just the city is not included in the county totals.