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Secularization - the historical process by which man increasingly controls the universe, thereby seeming to diminish God's dominion - sounds by definition like a threat to Christianity; in fact, it is a divine gift to man that has its roots in Biblical revelation. Such is the in sight of one of the century's greatest and least known Protestant thinkers...
Rural areas, always strong for the Machine, no longer have the strength they used to. Now, most of Virginia's voters live in cities and suburbs--before 1960 most voters were rural. 65 per cent of the Old 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...
...large group of liberal-to-moderate delegates were elected to the General Assembly in Richmond. These "Young Turks," as they were called, vociferously questioned the whole range of conservative ideas imbedded in Virginia's political life. This in itself was an almost unprecedented situation for the Old Dominion, but when federal courts ordered school integration, the conflict was brought to a head...
...Roosevelt and Byrd quickly became enemies; F.D.R. even tried to pre-empt all federal patronage in Virginia in a conspicuously unsuccessful effort to undercut the Senator at home. Byrd never again endorsed a Democratic presidential nominee. By maintaining a "golden silence," he helped Republicans carry the Old Dominion in every presidential election from 1952 until the Johnson landslide...
...Democratic primary, "Judge" Smith, 83, longtime leader of the conservative Southern bloc in the House of Representatives, was dispossessed of the seat he has occupied for 35 years. Senator Willis Robertson, 79, like Smith a member of the Byrd organization, was also defeated. And, in the Old Dominion that has been a family fiefdom for 40 years, Harry Flood Byrd Jr., 51, won the nomination for his father's old Senate seat by only 8,300 votes out of 434,000 cast...