His low-key manner, which on the campaign trail manifested as a doctor’s reassurance, appeared to work against Mr. Northam at a news conference on Saturday at the Executive Mansion in Richmond, suggesting a kind of obliviousness. He gave Mr. Northam the nickname “Blue Crab” because of his roots on the state’s Eastern Shore, a center of crab and oyster fishing and farming. Mr. Stoney, an African-American, was among the Democratic leaders who called for the governor to quit. Mr. Northam was raised on an inlet of Chesapeake Bay, the son of a judge and heir to a long lineage in the racially diverse Accomack County. The governor attended the Virginia Military Institute for his undergraduate studies and then Eastern Virginia Medical School, which is in Norfolk.

Source: New York Times February 03, 2019 13:07 UTC