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At the tea party events I've seen you do see many of the same homeschool fundie moms with their kids in homemade clothes you see at antiabortion events.
But the Moral Majority is not the wellspring of this culture: instead, it is related to it via a common ancestor: the traditional southerner, mainly of scots-irish origin. The common thread of "limited government" (a political theory term that does not appear in the constitution and has been hijacked by the TPM, BTW) comes directly down to them from the earliest days of the Republic:
Antifederalists: Mainly Southerners, pro-slavery, against the Constitution, against the strong federal government it would establish, supporters of the Articles of Confederation, which at that point had already left the nation a shambles.
Most of these same people opposed the policies of Alex Hamilton, under Geo Washington, in the creation of the First Bank of the United States, a conflict won decisively by the Federalists, establishing a private bank to act as the central bank of the US (and if Congress can do that, it can effectively do anything under the commerce and necessary and proper clauses).
These folks become "Republicans," i.e. the party of Jefferson. Part and parcel of their ideology was a belief that political democracy was undergird by a social democracy, in the sense that political equality was partly a result of the self-sufficient nature of the people, who mainly existed as agriculturalists on free or cheap land. These folks, it was thought, wouldn't need much in the way of government, though they wouldn't object if the government did something wacky like buying huge parcels of land, forcibly removing the people who really owned it, and giving it to white people to farm with the slaves they "owned."
Fast forward to the Nullification Crisis and John C. Calhoun. Same people, same ideology. Calhoun claimed that "state sovereignty" meant states had retained the right to nullify federal law (sound familiar?) He claimed that the states created the US, and therefore retained rights such as nullification: more radical voices wanted secession. The hyperbole of the nullifiers and secessionists is their main link to the TPM today.
Secessionists in the south: same people.
The period after reconstruction is often given short shrift, and I'll do so again, here: basically the theme that government is the friend of the negro, and that the negro is bad, and so government is bad, and will work with the aid of corrupt persons to aid the lazy and shiftless negro is established. This has been a major cultural and political theme of these people for decades: in this, the Moral Majority and TPM are the same.
Opponents of the New Deal: same people.
WWII isolationists: same people, with the caveat that their small government argument also has a more consistent, small military, less interventionist approach. This bit of their programme is quickly dropped as the nation mobilizes against the Axis, never to return. From this point on, these people are consistently militaristic.
Proponents of Vietnam: Same people.
George Wallace/Lester Maddox and the rest: Anti civil rights people were the same people. Folks forget it, but "small government" was a big part of their agenda.
That's the political stuff. Left out what Aimee Semple McPherson and her progeny did to the religion of these people. Rest assured, though, they are all the same people, and they think we will not notice.
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