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Politics Why Virginia Is Still Toppling Statues Dixie is dead, even if a few stray spirits remain to be exorcised. Mike Kropf/Richmond Times-Dispatch via Getty Images Thirty years ago, the New York Times journalist Peter Applebome wrote a book about the South. The title, Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture, said it all. Applebome surveyed the landscape of the mid-1990s and saw the Southerners Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott occupying the commanding heights of government; he saw states below the Mason-Dixon line booming economically and demographically; he saw…Open