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*For those of you not familiar with the term, the phrase "Culture War" has been used to describe the dramatic re-alignment that has recently taken place in American politics. The observation is that on an increasing number of issues, from abortion to gun control to taxes, there are two definable poles in American politics defined not by their their nominal religion or even political affiliation, but rather their ideological world view. In his book,  Culture Wars , Hunter describes this polarity as the impulse toward Progressivism and the impulse toward Orthodoxy. [http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/josman/culture/]
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The phrase "'''Culture War'''" has been used to describe the dramatic re-alignment that has recently taken place in American politics. The observation is that on an increasing number of issues, from abortion to gun control to taxes, there are two definable poles in American politics defined not by their their nominal religion or even political affiliation, but rather their ideological world view. In his book,  Culture Wars , Hunter describes this polarity as the impulse toward Progressivism and the impulse toward Orthodoxy. [http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/josman/culture/]
  
 
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Revision as of 21:04, August 24, 2007

The phrase "Culture War" has been used to describe the dramatic re-alignment that has recently taken place in American politics. The observation is that on an increasing number of issues, from abortion to gun control to taxes, there are two definable poles in American politics defined not by their their nominal religion or even political affiliation, but rather their ideological world view. In his book, Culture Wars , Hunter describes this polarity as the impulse toward Progressivism and the impulse toward Orthodoxy. [1]

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