Excerpt below from Carson's book, On A Hill They Call Capital:
"Cat finally got up and
made his way back to the
van, and slowly each man did in turn. We wound our
way out of the world of the Novinians (who we call Northern Virginians) and back to the real Virginia. Cat usually explains it this
way – Novinians are kind of like Martians. They can live amongst us – but we know who they are. They don’t talk or act like Virginians, they don’t prescribe to our “slow down, it’ll be alright” mentality, they use their horns for things other than waving, and they all scramble to be just like everyone else. We understand where the state
line technically is, but most people wouldn’t claim
anything north of Manassas as real Virginia anymore."