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...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 cut by the two-year old Virginia Conservative Party, a fringe group which...
Weltner, a handsome, fiercely independent lawyer of distinguished Southern lineage (his great-grandfather, Gen eral Thomas R. R. Cobb, wrote the Confederate constitution and was killed at Fredericksburg), personified "the new breed" of Southern Congressman -and was proud of the label. Elected to Congress in 1962 as a result of a court-ordered redistricting that gave his Atlanta district a 25% Negro vote, Weltner, in his first major House speech, indicted Southern white leaders who, he charged, "have stood by, leaving the field to reckless and violent...
First to Go. Judge Smith had a problem all his own in his contest with George C. Rawlings Jr. ,44, a Fredericksburg attorney and state legislator. The Eighth District was redrawn last year to include part of suburban Fairfax County in the north and some predominantly Negro areas in the south. Much of the territory between stayed loyal to Smith, but gave him smaller margins than he had expected. Suburban Fairfax went for Rawlings 2 to 1. With heavy Negro votes, Charles City County gave Rawlings a 7 to 2 margin, and New Kent County, 2 to 1. The result...
Judge Smith's opponent is Fredericksburg Attorney George C. Rawlings Jr., 44, a member of the legislature and a liberal by Virginia standards. Rawlings, who supports the Johnson Administration on most issues, has been racing tirelessly around the district since April. Rawlings attacks Smith as "Public Enemy No. 1 of the working man," a Representative "who has opposed more progressive legislation than any other Democrat or Republican in the entire history of Congress...
...tradition are being challenged in the July 12th primary. U.S. Representative Howard Worth ("Judge") Smith, 83, longtime chairman of the House Rules Committee, is seeking his 19th House term, faces a Democratic opponent for the first time in more than a decade. State Assemblyman George C. Rawlings, 44, a Fredericksburg attorney and avowed liberal, plans to make Smith's obstructionism on civil rights and other contemporary issues the focus of his campaign. Moderate State Senator William B. Spong, 45, is attempting to oust U.S. Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, 78, and Alexandria Attorney Armistead Boothe is trying for the seat...