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By JOHN GOOLRICK
In “Gone With the Wind” the bitter truth finally dawns on Scarlett O’Hara that the gracious, indolent pre-Civil War life she had enjoyed on the plantation had, indeed, been blown away by the winds of a terrible conflict.
The war’s aftermath wrought great changes in Virginia, yet for far more than a century afterward the state’s political structure continued to be almost totally dominated by rural interests.
Now the gradual crumbling of that structure is accelerating with almost daily reminders that a new power base of urban and suburban interests will control Virginia’s destiny for the rest of the 1990s and into the next century.
Last week State Sen. Elmon T. Gray of Sussex in Southside Virginia announced, as expected, he would not seek re-elction. That had been patently obvious last spring when Gray, who is 66 and is being treated for prostrate cancer, allowed himself
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