sentences:  Both the colony and the adult Virginia character were embraced as symbols of white nationalism.Even when Virginia Dare was invoked in the name of women's suffrage in the 1920s, it was to persuade North Carolina legislators that granting "white" women the vote would assure white supremacy.By the 1930s this racist connotation apparently subsided, although the VDARE organization, founded in 1999, has been denounced for promoting white supremacists.