How R. J. Rushdoony shaped fundamentalist politics, the world of homeschooling, the trajectory of American politics, and the obsessions of anti-tax militias forever.
This seems like an appropriate place to ask if there are any plans to cover the huge rightwards shift of Catholicism in the US - effectively, how Catholics became part of the white Christian mainstream rather than immigrants first and foremost? I'm in the UK and Catholicism is still massively associated with working-class areas and immigrants. US Catholic bishops are also noticeably ultra-conservative, and culturally there seems to be a lot of assimilation with Evangelical wider culture. There seems to be an obvious connection to Irish and Italian Catholics being seen as white now.
This seems like an appropriate place to ask if there are any plans to cover the huge rightwards shift of Catholicism in the US - effectively, how Catholics became part of the white Christian mainstream rather than immigrants first and foremost? I'm in the UK and Catholicism is still massively associated with working-class areas and immigrants. US Catholic bishops are also noticeably ultra-conservative, and culturally there seems to be a lot of assimilation with Evangelical wider culture. There seems to be an obvious connection to Irish and Italian Catholics being seen as white now.