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Article: The demographics of a movement. (Christian Right) (Christian Right Special Report)
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- Campaigns & Elections
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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After glancing over his shoulder for the ninth time and seeing the posse again breasting the last foothill, Butch Cassidy finally turned to Sundance and said: "Who are those guys anyway?" Butch's concern over the newly found persistence o this particular posse made him urgently curious about the group's composition. The country's established political leaders are acquiring much the same attitud about the Christian Right.
The Christian Right is an ill-defined group that appears to have been a part of the political landscape since the late 1970s and early '80s, when the National Conservative political action committee (NCPAC) and the Moral Majority began to organize ...