What if I told you voting Republican really wasn't His mission?
What if I told you republican doesn't automatically mean Christian
And just because you call some people blind doesn't automatically give you vision

from Jefferson Bethke – Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus (Spoken Word) Lyrics on Rap Genius

Since at least the 1960’s, the so-called Christian right in the United States has been affiliated with the Republican party

This trend started as a reaction against the 1960’s counterculture, and was intensified by Richard Nixon’s Southern strategy in 1968, which played on racist fears of Southern whites in order to get them to abandon the Democratic party, to which they had historically belonged. Rick Perlstein’s superb book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America gives a blow-by-blow account of this process

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