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Jr. both lamented the unfavorable national publicity it has focused on Virginia.
Implied in their remarks, but left unsaid, was also a sense of nostalgia for the old ways of state political life that was so long dominated by Harry Byrd Sr. from his Senate office in Washington.
Both Mr. Byrd Jr. and Gov. Godwin are products of that era when rural courthouses called the shots and decided who would gain political power and who would be cut from the pack.
In his recent comments, Mr. Byrd Jr. said, “Other states have had things like this, but Virginia hasn’t." He was talking, of course, about the controversy surrounding Sen. Robb and Gov. Wilder, but also calling attention to bygone times when such things would have been positively unthinkable.
The emerging New Dominion, of course, is being created on the back of explosive population growth over the past few decades in the Golden Crescent from Northern Virginia along Interstates 95 and 64 to the Hampton Roads region. That growth first reflected itself in the transfer of political power in the redistricting of 1981-82 and will be con
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