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Tempestuous 

Promoting political angst, the tea party takes Richmond for a ride.

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The Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s fought against Catholic immigration. Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats pushed for states rights and opposed civil rights for African-Americans in the 1948 presidential election. And a groundswell of Republican activism arrived with Barry Goldwater in the early…

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