"Since most religio-cultural conservatives are the children and grandchildren of New Deal Democrats and the great grandchildren of Williams Jenning Bryan Populists this is not a contradiction.
Religio-cultural conservatives are not the descendents of Taft-McKinley-Coolidge Old Guard Republicans."
What Reagan put together, GWB is taking apart? Seems to be the case
Not necessarily.
You just have to realize that blue collar religious conservatives have not left their New Deal economic positions. That is why they are not free traders and why they did not lift a finger to support the privatization of Social Security.