Religious Revolution at Top of the GOP

RALEIGH — There is an interesting and little-noticed revolution going on at the elite levels of the national Republican Party. Whereas the party was led at one time by WASPs — essentially white, Anglo-Saxon Episcopalians and Presbyterians with a few Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutherans thrown in — it is now dominated by Catholics and Protestants who belong to nonmainline denominations, particularly the Southern Baptist Convention or evangelical groups...
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