The Catholics did the one thing that could reverse the stereotypes. Their relentless insistance on education for their children pulled them ahead of their contemporaries and solidly into the middle class.
There are still legacy Democratic / Catholic strongholds but they are susceptable. I am part of a group that is building the next generation of the Republican Party. We are hunting down the bright young kids with leadership ability and dragging them into the Party. When I am given a name and punch someone's doorbell the chances are better than even that I will be talking to a Catholic.
The Reagan Revolution was Catholic. The campaign was by Catholics and aimed at Catholics. Reagan's philosophy and base was Western Republican (Mormon) but it was Catholics that ground out the Reagan agenda.
That's funny, I seem to recall something about '76, North Carolina, Evangelicals, Jesse Helms and the Congressional Club.
Revisionist history won't work until the people who actually remember are dead and gone.
Well first you need to get Catholics to start voting republican, something that we may never see again and have only seen five times in our history since they are so devoted to democrats like Obama and Gore.
In 1980 we aren’t even sure that Reagan won 50% of the Catholic vote, some polling says it was less than half.
Catholics have taken California for the democrats, the left’s hope for the future is that they take Texas to knock out conservatism forever, and make the Kennedy dream a done deal.
Oh please