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just now UDerai ana uoeraliam" got to be dirty words in Virginia is an interesting story. It is, however, laden with far too much of the Old Dominion’s history, sociology and cultural anthropology to be adequately treated here. A couple of observations, nevertheless, are in order.
If cleanliness is next to Godliness, then in Virginia Godliness is next to conservatism, that supreme and abiding faith to which all “sound thinking” citizens of the Commonwealth are naturally supposed to subscribe.
To be sure, nobody really knows exactly what conservatism is except that in some vague way it means holding bock the tides of change, suggests a womb-like security and is therefore warm and good.
It is a marvelous portmanteau word into which one can pack just about any amount of semantic cargo one wishes. To some, conservatism means nothing more than the preservation of good manners and gentility, to some simply patriotism, and to many, sadly, the continuation, to the extent possible, of the South’s ancient patterns of race relations as they were practiced in the “good old days.” (It used to mean, also, restraint in public spending and a commitment to balanced budgets, bid since President Reagan has turned out to be the champion budget-buster of all time, that aspect of the faith has been played down of late.)
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