Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIRGINIA...
Nixon won easily in Virginia, another of the near-South states that proved disappointing for Wallace. There were no senate or gubernatorial races in the state this year...
Other Eastern states not unalterably in the Nixon column include Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Maryland, in which Humphrey is favored; New York and Connecticut, regarded as even; and New Jersey, in which a strong Democratic turnout coupled with a marked anti-Wallace movement would be necessary to carry the state for Humphrey...
...safe for Nixon. Others in this safe category are Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma; also, among smaller states, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming. Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia are less securely Nixon country...
Elizabeth Bowen is one of the few of Virginia Woolf's many imitators who learned something positive from her fragile literary experiments. Instead of stringing endless psychological trivia, Bowen builds a strong psychic mood by carefully picking her details-cars, lies, daydreams-and arranging them with an experienced, measuring feminine...