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It was mentioned as a book in which the author details how the Republican party in the 1970s tried to capture a political majority by focusing on social and cultural issues, such as abortion, to grab Democratic Catholics and voters in the South.
And we also have Kevin Phillips's very, very important book, The Emerging Republican Majority, in which he says, you know, if we just double down on this strategy and on trying to grab Catholics, Demo...
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It was mentioned as a book in which the author details how the Republican party in the 1970s tried to capture a political majority by focusing on social and cultural issues, such as abortion, to grab Democratic Catholics and voters in the South.
And we also have Kevin Phillips's very, very important book, The Emerging Republican Majority, in which he says, you know, if we just double down on this strategy and on trying to grab Catholics, Democratic Catholics into our coalition over issues of social traditionalism, which by 1970 became the issue of abortion, then we've got a majority for the future.