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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The numbers are stark. Twenty years ago, just 46 percent of white evangelical Protestants were older than 50; now, 62 percent are above 50. The median age of white evangelicals is 55. Only 10 percent of Americans under 30 years of age identify as white evangelicals.
The result is a shrinking conservative bloc, something that could weaken white Christian political power—and, consequently, a Republican Party that has staked its future on its alliance with the religious right. It's a conundrum that the father of modern GOP conservatism, Barry Goldwater, predicted in 1964: "Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem."
The alliance between the religious right and Republican Party dates back to the era of Brown v. The Board of Education, when white Southerners began to flee public schools after forced desegregation. They opened so-called "segregation academies": religious schools that were tax-exempt. When the IRS came after evangelical colleges like Bob Jones, which officially prohibited interracial dating, the schools were faced with losing their tax-exempt status.
https://www.newsweek.com/midterms-trump-evangelicals-politics-1205987
The result is a shrinking conservative bloc, something that could weaken white Christian political power—and, consequently, a Republican Party that has staked its future on its alliance with the religious right. It's a conundrum that the father of modern GOP conservatism, Barry Goldwater, predicted in 1964: "Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem."
The alliance between the religious right and Republican Party dates back to the era of Brown v. The Board of Education, when white Southerners began to flee public schools after forced desegregation. They opened so-called "segregation academies": religious schools that were tax-exempt. When the IRS came after evangelical colleges like Bob Jones, which officially prohibited interracial dating, the schools were faced with losing their tax-exempt status.
https://www.newsweek.com/midterms-trump-evangelicals-politics-1205987