Why Did the Uturn Come From?

Rey: I think a lot of people are perceiving a going backwards, that there was a window of time in which it seemed like america was starting to make different choices. The civil rights generation were the ones that pushed us over the line, then pushed us to the place where the 13, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were now going to be protected by law. Since then, we had the rise of the religious right. And from that point forward, they successfully married the conservative party withsir the conservative ideology with the republican party. And with evangelicalism. Tha hat really was developed ultimately.