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County in the lieutenant governor’s campaign.
The same holds true for Democratic Del. Mary Sue Terry of Stuart, the first woman to run for attorney general, in her race against Republican Del. W.R. “Buster” O’Brien of Virginia Beach.
The campaign pits the new Democrats of Dixie, personified by Gov. Charles S. Robb, against the new strength of the Southern Republicans, including some who moved to the GOP in the 1970s, leaving a Democratic Party once controlled by former U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr.
His son, Harry F. Byrd Jr. of Winchester, an independent and also
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