Item Detail
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26808
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English
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A Politically Peculiar People : How Mormons Moved into and Then out of the Political Mainstream
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Mormonism and American Politics
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New York
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Columbia University Press
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133-154
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This chapter describes the unique political attitudes and voting behavior of ordinary American Mormons, with special, though not exclusive, focus on those in the intermountain West. The arc of our story is that Mormons went from being highly peculiar in the era before and just after Utah statehood to conformity with national political trends through much of the twentieth century. Over roughly the last thirty years, however, Mormons have once again become peculiar when compared to the nation as a whole. They are staunchly Republican and largely conservative, and thus appear to share their peculiarity with other stalwart constituencies of the republicans' coalition, particularly white evangelical Protestants. Yet a close analysis of Mormons' attitudes reveals that they are distinctive, aligning with neither evangelicals nor any other religious group. [From the text]
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