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SUMMARY A. Linwood Holton was a governor of Virginia (1970–1974) and the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction (1865–1877). Hailing from Big Stone Gap in southwest Virginia, Holton was among the “Mountain and Valley” Republicans who began to gain statewide support in the 1950s in opposition to the Byrd Organization and in support of public school desegregation. Holton won a narrow race for governor in 1969 with a coalition that included a substantial number of African American and white working-class voters. As governor, he declared an end to Massive Resistance, th...

Fifty years today a single man died, and with his passing, Virginia politics — and perhaps American politics — shifted its course.

1. Republicans will have a hard time portraying Democrats as dangerous socialists. That seems to be the favorite Republican line these days, but it won’t work here. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe is a corporate-friendly Democrat who, as governor, stood alongside Dominion Energy executives to endorse the now-abandoned Atlantic Coast Pipeline. (He also endorsed, and presumably still endorses, the Mountain Valley Pipeline.) The actual socialist in the field, Lee Carter, couldn’t even muster 3% of the vote (and was a double loser because he lost his renomination campaign for the House of D...

Historically, governors who run successfully for a second term after having been out of office for a term have had a less than positive impact.

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