The Christian Right’s lasting achievement was locking evangelicals to the GOP

Evidence

The Christian Right may not have swung the election to Reagan, but it did succeed in securing the loyalty of evangelicals to the Republican Party. From Reagan on, no Democrat would again win the majority of white evangelical support, or threaten the same. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 244

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: “Evangelical” now functions chiefly as a Republican Party identity label — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 280; The great white switch made white religiosity a reliable Republican vote predictor. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 45; US Zionism’s political base shifted from liberal Democrats to the Christian Right — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 687