God and the New Deal: the men who made the New Deal and built the CIO were secular liberals and socialists. But they knew that to succeed, they would have to accommodate traditional religion.
American Prospect, The, December, 2004 by Meyerson, Harold
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To be sure, the gap in the electorate between the observant and the secular is widening. But it's just one part of a larger cultural rift that the Republicans have long realized (as far back as Richard Nixon) is central to their success. Since Nixon's announcement that he stood with the "silent majority" against the noisy protesters, the Republicans have practiced a form of identity politics, championing the more traditional culture of Middle America against its ...
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