Posted on 01/25/2025 7:59:32 AM PST by DallasBiff
Full Title: The Victory Squad with Ronald Reagan and John Wayne 1966
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What happened?
Immigration happened, the core white Protestant vote remained and still remains roughly the same as it always was, but immigration started to replace them and has since succeeded in replacing them.
Thanks for posting. It was quite a trip back through time.
Big similarities to today: Get Out The Vote! Elections are won or lost by a few votes per precinct.
Big differences to today: California must have had no Hispanic, Asian or black voters or residents in 1966.
The election of JFK killed California and America.
“During the 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles was a bastion of Anglo Protestantism, reflecting the values of Midwestern parishioners who had been carried to the Southland on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Well into the 1970s, Protestant denominational leaders enjoyed comfortable, influential ties with the city’s still-strong “downtown business
establishment,” which itself was largely Protestant.
The Immigration Act of 1965, however, created the condition for a radically different religious future for the City of Angels-a future that would anoint Roman Catholicism as the area’s dominant religious group. Today Roman Catholicism is the single largest faith tradition in Los Angeles County, with 294 parishes and 3,631,368 adherents.
Among Christians, 71% are Catholics. Between 1980 and 1997, Roman Catholicism experienced a 36% growth.”
Depressing isn’t it.
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