Wednesday, August 16, 2006
George Felix Allen
Virginia is for White People...
Sigh...For a short while in the 1990s, we could pretend that Virginia had entered the 20th century. Hi-tech offices springing up along the Dulles Toll Road, AOL, and other cutting edge businesses seemingly changing a state that was capitol of the confederacy, banned interracial marriage until 1967, and more recently had gone on a gay bashing streak. Alas, George Allen's recent controversy shows that for some in the Commonwealth, very little has changed.
Sigh...For a short while in the 1990s, we could pretend that Virginia had entered the 20th century. Hi-tech offices springing up along the Dulles Toll Road, AOL, and other cutting edge businesses seemingly changing a state that was capitol of the confederacy, banned interracial marriage until 1967, and more recently had gone on a gay bashing streak. Alas, George Allen's recent controversy shows that for some in the Commonwealth, very little has changed.
