Excerpt from Virginia Information for the Homeseeker and Investor
Almost every man born outside the borders of the Old Dominion has found occasion to comment on the enthusiasm with which Virginians discuss their native State. Indeed, the Virginian among strangers is regarded as something more than an enthusiast - he is put down as a rhapsodist. No clime, whatever its charms, can divorce him from his native hearth; his thoughts ever revert to the State of his birth, and, like the Celestial who prays that his ashes may repose in the land of his forefathers, he always turns to the Old Dominion when he feels that his days are being numbered.
Regarding the matter from the standpoint of one who has never dwelt in Virginia, this home instinct of her people seems almost incomprehensible, but the fact finds ready explanation among those who have lived in the time-honored Commonwealth. Once a householder establishes his hearthstone in the Old Dominion, the subtle charm of the State holds him enthralled and adds the stranger to the long list of so-called rhapsodists.
In days agone it has been said that the people of the State which claims Washington and Lee as her sons arc wont to dwell in the past and to drowse their way through life with memories of what has been. And, surely, if ever this species of lotus-eating were pardonable in any case, it should he in the Virginian, for behind him are three centuries of glorious history.
But the charge of inertia has now grown obsolete; today it would fall for want of truth. Time was when it seemed as if Virginia had grown inert and supine, but out of this very inertia was to be born her salvation.
Staggering under the wounds inflicted by the war of secession - staggering when other less spirited communities would have fallen never to rise again - she bravely faced the changed conditions and wrought order out of chaos. Surely this was no task for rhapsodises.
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