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It was all part of the same thing, all of those things came out of the hard-core religious Southern former-Democrat scene. Lots of fundamentalists abandoned the Democrats over issues like abortion and civil rights and were ripe for the picking by the Republicans who just wanted votes.
Yeah, come to think of it. They, the Southern Fundamentalist basically switch parties in mass after Roe v. Wade. Those organizations I mention sprung up because of the abortion ruling. Yep, that and civil rights, now gay marriage has entered the mix. But unlike the 70's and 80's when the swing gave the Republicans a huge advantage, now the religious right has begun to hurt them with non-religious or should I say non-fundamentalist voters. I really never thought of it in those terms.