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impressing upon them the importance of solidified party lines and maintaining conservative policies. Those in the Byrd organization knew they forever had jobs if they remained in formation.
But the “good ol’ boy” tactics were to survive a limited lifespan. The population soon shifted to the metropolitan areas of the state.
State Republican Chairman Donald Huffman says more than SO percent of the vote today is cast by those in the metropolitan areas, particularly in the “eastern urban corridor.” That contrasts markedly with the control exercised by rural and predominately southside Virginia interests during the Byrd era.
Such a change, and the advent of television and a technically advanced media, has largely eliminated what Huffman calls the “courthouse clique” as a factor in state politics.
“Those fellows at the courthouse are too busy looking after themselves to be worrying much about state and national elections,” Huffman said.
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