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I think this is a good assessment and accounts for a lot of the differences that many people see in tea parties. Many people here will bring in their individual experiences and hold that as a better information source than the marketing or what others tell them. I know it is certainly true for me. The tea party in my area is basically a southern holiness church revival (with all of the same political talk that goes on in those types of churches) more than anything else, for example. However, that mixed message, is at the same time relevant and irrelevant, depending on what aspect of this movement we focus on in whatever discussion.
Yes. I wouldn't contend that individual local tea parties may have some that are as focus on religious conservatism as the other portions. When you get down to that level the chance for disparity and changes are possible. However, I don't think you can talk about individual local tea parties and suggest that it somehow is relevant greatly on the national scale...let alone to the point of claiming its a "religious organization". I think what the national over arching group is about AND the things that are nearly universally common amongst the local groups is far more relevant and the far better representation of what "The tea party" is when speaking of a broad description. I don't see how heavily discussing social conservatism because some of the local groups may be more apt for it is any more relevant than talking about libertarinism because some of the local groups may do that or talking about some whacky view that some random local DNC office holds when discussing the Democratic Party on a national level.