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the land.

Pete Luke said Rappahannock ought to get in touch with other counties affected the same way and ask them to join in a statewide effort to get the formula changed. James Adkins, the math teacher who’d worked with Masterson, predicted that the Board of Education’s defense of the formula would be that “it helps some and it hurts some, so git evens out statewide.”

“Well, it sure hurts here, because it’s determining land use,” Masterson said. After the meeting, outside the courthouse, George Davis grinned and said he’d told the officials in Richmond Rappahannock might have to consider seceding from the state of Virginia. They’d tried that before, when Virginia went Republican for Herbert Hoover, Davis said; it hadn’t worked then, but that’s not any reason nnt to trv a pa in

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