Virginia : a history
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Virginia : a history
（The States and the Nation series）
Norton , American Association for State and Local History, c1984
- : pbk
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Previous ed. has subtitle: A bicentennial history
Bibliography: p. 219-221
Includes index
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From the beginning, Virginians have styled their government a conservative commonwealth, seeking stability amid change and often fashioning change to fit their concept of what Virginia-and America-should be like. In the eighteenth century Golden Age, Virginia was a world of broad acres and country gentlemen. To preserve the world, Virginians led a revolution and helped to found a government that they believed would secure their children's future. In the name of old and tried principles, Virginians in 1861 seceded from the Union to defend a way of life that to them seemed worth fighting for. In the twentieth century, they "paid as they went," convinced that debt meant the end of good government.
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