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Epigraph: Paul Weyrich, "The Cultural Right's Hot New Agenda," Washington Post, May 1986> Alex Gage, "The 1986 Mid-term Elections: A Departure From Historical Patterns?" Marketing, Fall 1986, p. 1 (newsletter of Market Opinion Research).

Address to National Religious Broadcasters convention, January 30, 1985, Washington, DC.

Ibid.

Address to prayer breakfast, Reunion Arena, Dallas, August 23, 1984. 386. National Religious Broadcasters news release, January 1987.

For examples of such projections, see Kenneth C. W. Kammeyer and Helen Ginn, An Introduction to Population (Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1986).

Cited in Jonathan Peterson and Robert A. Rosenblatt, " `Boomers' Face a Brave New World," Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1986.

Norman H. Nie, Sidney Verba, and John R. Petrocik, The Changing American Voter (enlarged ed.) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979), pp. 263ff.

See, for example, Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie, Participation in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), p. 145.

George Gallup, Jr., Religion in America. 50 Years: 1935-1985 (Princeton, NJ: The Princeton Religious Research Center, 1985), pp. 18-20, 40-44.

David Roozen, William McKinney, and Wayne Thompson, "The Big Chill Warms to Worship: Family Cycle and Political Orientation Effects on Increases in Worship Attendance From the 1970's to 1980's." Unpublished paper presented to the annual meeting of the Religious Research Association, Washington, DC, November 1986.