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Religious Right and Republican Party Alliance (1979-1980)

The formation of the alliance between the Religious Right and the Republican Party, particularly through the Moral Majority and the support for Ronald Reagan in 1980.

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When did the religious right alliance with Republicans begin?

The political alliance between the (largely white evangelical Protestants and allied conservative Catholics) and the emerged over decades but coalesced in the 1970s and became a durable force by the 1...