Historians like Chandler Davidson of Rice University point out how ultra right-wing politics were originally a part of the Democratic Party. As the Democratic Party shifted to the left during the Johnson era, the political right began to change parties.
The party that Southerners traditionally held to be the party of carpetbaggers and Yankee interventionists became the party that stood against civil rights legislation. The Republican Party gained a whole new meaning and a new following.
In the South, "Christian" is supposed to mean "conservative". The only kind of "liberal" Christian that Southerners are supposed to like is a "liberal giver".
The conservative image of the Republican Party has caused some Christians to consider it the one with the Christian causes. Regardless of what Democrats believe about the environment, women, race, or the economy, many Christians have written them off because of four issues.
They consider Democrats unclean because of the national party’s stands on abortion, civil rights, separation of church and state, and homosexual rights.
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