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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Supervisors Seek Study of School Segregation Harm BY RENSS GREENE rgreene@loudounnow.com
time Virginia at large picked the Democrat since voting for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Virginia has voted blue in every presidential election since 2008. When Democrat Jennifer Wexton in 2018 flipped 10th Congressional District, a longtime Republican stronghold, it was
County supervisors voted Tuesday to work with the School Board “to study the harm caused by Loudoun County’s discrimination of Black students and seek out ways to rectify disparities.” The project was proposed by Supervisor Juli E. Briskman (D-Algonkian). While her Sept. 17 announcement and board item did not lay out details about the form that study Briskman should take, Briskman said that was intentional to leave space for the Joint School Board-Board of Supervisors Committee to have that discussion, and suggested a “truth and reconciliation committee.” Her office’s proposal cites examples around the country such as city mayors committing to pay reparations for slavery, Georgetown University paying reparations to the descendants of 272 slaves the university sold in 1838 to save itself from bankruptcy, and House Bill 1980 passed this year introduced by Loudoun Del. David A. Reid (D-32) establishing the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program. That bill requires five state universities to identify and memorialized enslaved people
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SEGRATION HARM continues on page 39
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) visited Catoctin Creek Distilling for a ribbon cutting Monday, Sept. 20. In 2005, before getting elected to the Senate, he was the first Democrat governor to win Loudoun since 1989.
Still a Bellwether?
Loudoun’s Long-held Sway in Governor’s Races BY RENSS GREENE rgreene@loudounnow.com
Over the past 50 years, with only two exceptions, whoever Loudoun voted for became governor of Virginia. It is a trend that is reflected in races at both the state and federal level: as goes Loudoun—and other exurbs like Prince
William County or Henrico County—so goes the state. And while cities and large counties like Fairfax are often talked about as the Democratic strongholds, in recent history, it was when the exurbs voted Democrat that Virginia flipped blue. Loudoun and Prince William first voted blue for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, and that was the first
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