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want more roads and new sources of water supply and an environment favorable to bringing in even more new people whose presence will change the state’s political outlook even more.
In Wilder’s case with the vote of blacks and moderate-liberals and liberals sewed up, he can gravitate even more toward the center-right and is already doing so. He has reassured nervous conservatives he will defend the state’s right-to-work law, has reinstated his support of the death penalty and assured business interests he stands behind the probusiness policies of the Robb and Baliles administrations.
To say the Virginia electorate has changed, though, is not to suggest liberalism will become rampant. It is merely to state that future governors are likely to build on the pragmatic approaches of Governors Robb and Baliles who were far more interested in solving problems on a case by case basis than making speeches about ideology.
Virginians in this time of transition appear to be more concerned about what can be done to get them to work faster or make their neighborhoods safe than hearing about Jeffersonian principles of limited government and fiscal restraint.
John Goolrick is a former journalist who covered Virginia politics and the General Assembly for almost 25 years. He is now a press aide to Congressman D. French Slaughter Jr.
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