[FrustratedMonky]

Interestingly, just read something that "Evangelicals", 50-80 years ago, used to think more, and thought religion and government should be separate, hence they believed they should stay out of government. They were only recently 'radicalized' like other fundamentalist religions into a more terrorist 'like', leaning group.

[bluGill]

Perhaps, but only for a short time in history, go back 150 years ago and the various churches often were telling you who to vote for.

[moomin]

I’ve read things that basically say the group re-integrated with politics when Jim Crow stopped being a thing.

[prewett]

Is that implying that Evangelicals are essentially racists? Jim Crow stopped about the time that the Sexual Revolution got going strong, so there's some confounding factors there. Since the Sexual Revolution values are clearly against the Christian "rules", which at the time somewhat matched the legal rules, and there was a secular movement removing the legal rules, it would seem likely that this was the motivating factor, especially given the existence of groups named like "Moral Majority" (ick). Also, Evangelicals are not just a southern thing, and I've never heard Evangelicals (I've not been to the South) argue for any return to anything remotely near Jim Crow, but I've heard lots of talk deploring sexual mores.