Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.

Page 1 · column 2 of 5 · from the scan, no model involved

The clipping this text was read from
The clipping this text was read from

By Bill Kossler

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

The last time Democrats carried Rappahannock County for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General and Delegate was 1965.

Before then Virginia went reliably Democratic, but it was a different era, and the party labels meant different things.

Since the changes of the late 1960s, both the state and our county have grown more and more reliably Republican.

It was a gradual change. Twenty

93.3%