Where is Northern Virginia Exactly?

Now I'm a generous guy and all, but I think it's a stretch...or should I say streeeeeeeetch to add Fauquier County as part of Northern VA.  You're getting close to Warrenton by then.  

Side question:  Is Clark Brothers still on 29?

My favorite license plate slogan by far is:  Taxation Without Representation

There really isn't anything close to that, so perfect!  Was it Eleanor Norton Holmes who came up with that idea?  BTW, I love the picture on your AR page Patricia - a little waterfront action.  I even see the road i've zipped on from Key Bridge to downtown many times.....K Street if I recall correctly. 

Nice post. Just to expand (?) on it a bit:

Oh there aren't any Southern Virginian's just Virginians.

Well, almost all Virginians would call themselves Southerners, even those in Northern Virginia (even if there isn't a Northern Virginia). And what about West Virginia--part of Virginia before the Civil War (or War Between the States or, perhaps as Virginians who consider themselves Southerners would call it, "The War of Northern Aggression." And if you take a look at a map, West Virginia is actually North of Northern Virginia, so maybe there is no real Northern Virginia any more--just West Virginia (which is the true North). Huh?

As for flying into regional airports, what about National Airport? (Or Reagan National, if you prefer.) That must be in the city, right? It's so much closer in. But, no. National Airport is in Arlington . . . Northern Virginia (if you accept the dubious premise that there is a Northern Virginia). Except, of course, that that area of Virginia used to be part (for awhile) of the District of Columbia. If you look at a map of the District, it looks as if someone took a bite out of its southwestern region . . . which is pretty much what happened.

And we haven't even touched on the subject of Southern Maryland which, thankfully, is not where that couple was moving! But to drive from Virginia into Maryland (which no one in their right mind really wants to do--traffic problems, nothing wrong with Maryland, hon!), you cross over a bridge named for a Virginia (Woodrow Wilson) who made his name by serving as governor of New Jersey (definitely North) before being elected President.

Somehow, I think I just added to the confusion!

Well no, very few Northern Virginians of the past few decades consider themselves Southerners.  Old timers and those not really in the area might.

Arlington County was actually part of Virginia before being taken by DC, then returned some years later.

Speaking of National Airport, I was there a few weeks ago and had time to kill so I walked through the former 'waiting area' and looked at all the pictures from way back (I believe the 40s) through now.  My memories only span 30 years, but the change in that time has been significant.