Terrific Interview with Author of "South Park Conservatives"I haven't been paying too much attention to the book "South Park Conservatives", probably because I've seen only a couple episodes of South Park. But this is a
tremendous interview, and Brian Anderson, the author, clearly knows his politics.
Do you think that in 10-20 years the GOP is going to look more like Tom DeLay's party, or Arnold Schwarzenegger's party? Why?
Evangelical Protestants are the most rapidly expanding religious demographic in the U.S.—they make up almost a third of the adult population now—and the most religiously committed among them describe themselves as politically conservative. Evangelicals gave George W. Bush roughly four out of every ten votes he received in 2000, and white Evangelicals now make up nearly a third of registered voters. So the GOP will look more like DeLay’s party than Schwarzenegger’s, I’d say. Yet you’ll need both kinds of people in the GOP if it is to remain a governing party.Wonderful, intelligent stuff.
