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The Godwin pitch on Durrette’s behalf was as strong, though a bit less strident, than was the one he made for Marshall Coleman in 1981. On that occasion he solidified support for Coleman’s opponent, then Lt. Gov. Chuck Robb. He unsuccessfully tried to saddle Robb with a number of voting and other reform proposals which were supported by blacks but opposed by most of the conservative white electorate.
Whatever other effects Godwin’s attack on Wilder may have, they are sending shudders through much of the GOP. Most of the party’s leaders are convinced that there is more political profit in working with the new black leaders who are helping make things like the Sixth Street Marketplace possible than there is in firing up the good old boys in Farmville and sending thousands of blacks to the polls to vote for Babies.
For most Virginians, that kind of black magic has been dying for a quarter of a century, and now, gratefully, is little more than a relic of the way things used to be in “Ole Virginny.”
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