Virginia

When the voters go to the polls on November 5 to choose Virginia’s next governor there will be only one issue —integration vs. segregation in the schools—and the electorate is aware that the election cannot solve the problem.

Traveling through the state, talking to Republicans, Democrats, Independents, professional observers and the man on the street, I found conclusive evidence that this one issue has completely obscured many others which would normally assume importance in the campaign. Some of these might have influenced considerable numbers of votes had there been no crisis in Arkansas. But today, in the Old Dominion and all the South, there is a new phrase in the American political idiom: “Remember Little Rock!”

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Sam M. Jones

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When the voters go to the polls on November 5 to choose Virginia’s next governor there will be only one issue —integration vs. segregation in the schools—and the electorate is aware that the election cannot solve the problem.

Traveling through the state, talking to Republicans, Democrats, Independents, professional observers and the man on the street, I found conclusive evidence that this one issue has completely obscured many others which would normally assume importance in the campaign. Some of these might have influenced considerable numbers of votes had there been no crisis in Arkansas. But today, in the Old Dominion and all the South, there is a new phrase in the American political idiom: “Remember Little Rock!”