Jimmy Carter is but one of a new stripe of moderate flourishing these days below the Mason-Dixon line. Herewith sketches of four other Governors whose elections reflected, and whose actions in office are helping shape the attitudes of the emerging South:
LINWOOD HOLTON OF VIRGINIA
He took office on Jan. 17, 1970, as the Commonwealth of Virginia's first Republican Governor in nearly a century. It was a ringing inaugural. Standing on the steps of the capitol of the Confederacy in Richmond, Holton proclaimed: "Let our goal in...
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