They are reserved for Rowe's primary job of cutting ribbons, he said, and have been used a lot downtown, where just a few empty storefronts remain on Main Street. Scissors the size of gardening shears hang from a coatrack in the mayor's office. The election hit on fundamental questions about what America is and should be." "Even in 2008, they could say the country is on our side on (same-sex marriage), and that's changed so quickly in this last decade. Jones, author of The End of White Christian America. "You think back to the 1990s, and conservative Christians could throw around the phrase 'moral majority,' and there was a kernel of truth to that," said PRRI demographer Robert P. With his promise to "Make America Great Again," Trump appealed directly to this sense of dispossession, and 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for him, according to exit polls. In sharp contrast, 62 percent of African Americans and 57 percent of Hispanic Americans think the culture has changed for the better, the survey said. Seventy-four percent of white evangelicals believe American culture has mostly changed for the worse since the 1950s - more than any other group of Americans - compared with 56 percent of all whites, according to a 2015 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. For these voters, the desire for change also could be viewed as a desire to change back to what they perceive as a more wholesome and prosperous time, when high-paying manufacturing jobs were plentiful, white Protestants were indisputably in charge and same-sex marriage and the Black Lives Matter movement were unthinkable. "We're going to hold him to it," said Brad Thomas, 42, who used to work as an engineer building turbine blades for power plants before his job was moved to Mexico.Ī yearning for an earlier time, especially prevalent in rural American towns and cities like Mount Airy, helped spur white evangelical Christians to vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. "Now it's about secular progressivism, not the values you get out of this book," like honesty and hard work, said Rowe, 72, jabbing his finger at the leather Bible on his office desk.īut as Donald Trump prepares to move into the White House, Rowe and many of his constituents are hoping for a return to the past. If only his city and the rest of America could return to the 1950s again. If only the real Mount Airy, which has experienced decades of economic and social decline, were like the Mayberry facade, muses Mayor David Rowe.
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