Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominion's population lives in the urban corridor which slashes diagonally across the state from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., on south through Fredericksburg to Richmond, and then down into the densely-populated complex around the Navy installations at Norfolk. At the same time that the Byrd Organization has trouble in this area, its traditional margins in Southside have been severely cut by the two-year old Virginia Conservative Party, a fringe group which seems to feel that ultra-conservatism is not ultra enough...
...surrounding counties) had they run a candidate against the incumbent Democrat this fall. Nevertheless the Republicans face serious problems. They have not been able to build up an effective statewide organizations; local offices have largely been left to the Democratic Party in return for the late Sen. Harry Byrd's "golden silence"--his refusal to support Democratic nominees for President. As a result, Virginia went Republican in 1952, 1956 and 1960. But the outcome of this trade-off with the Byrds has meant a Republican Party far weaker than the voting patterns of the state would indicate it ought...
During the last two years, however, certain social forces have been at work to undermine the traditional political power blocs. With the abolition of the poll tax in federal elections, registration surged and people began to vote in unprecedented numbers. Not only Negroes, but many whites. Young Harry Byrd, campaigning last summer to fill out the unexpired Senate term of his late father, even had to appeal to his audiences for a large voter turnout to offset the power of "pressure groups"--that is, Negroes...
...Spong, Jr., of Portsmouth, who knocked off Robertson in the Democratic primary (by 611 votes), and went on to defeat his Goldwater-Republican opponent in the November election by almost two-to-one. In what the press labeled "The Big Race," Spong outran his running-mate Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., by 56,000 votes. It was a striking display of how far Virginia has come in the past few years...
...Democratic Party should control the state's politics for some time to come--as long as certain conditions are met. The Democrats must avoid a disastrous ideological split during the next four years; they must make sure they keep control of vital local offices; old line Byrd Machine leaders must be persuaded to step down for younger candidates and move closer to the increasingly powerful moderates who will make a play for the urban, labor and Negro vote...