can you paste the newyork times article here, it’s paywalled.
Further reading:
- Reagan tied Republicans to White Christians and now the party is trapped, Washington Post
- Religion and Right-Wing Politics: How Evangelicals Reshaped Elections, New York Times
- Moral Majority, Wikipedia
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 year ago
And a historical aside - the American right these days seems very much driven by religion and guns but, as the above shows, it wasn’t always so with the former and it also wasn’t with the latter:
karabiener@lemmy.world 1 year ago
i found this in a different article
But looking for an EXACT DATE (if we are talking about exponential increase in modern time) we find it to be Feb 1st 1953 as it is shown here: history.com/…/eisenhower-billy-graham-religion-in…
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 year ago
If you are looking for an exact date it’s either politicians and religious leaders have been using each other for their own ends since the dawn of civilisation or, for this modern era of American politics, it is the Reagan/Moral Majority era that saw this situation go up a notch.
karabiener@lemmy.world 1 year ago
thanks will read into it.