Tag: Public Protestantism
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Big Sort: Seeds of the New Partisanship
(Link to Part 4) In the fall of 1974, a war broke out in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Not a shooting war exactly, but certainly a major conflict. Schools were shut down, and people went to jail for conspiracy to blow up school buses and burn down schools. The issue? Textbooks. Fundamentalist pastor Marvin Horan…