religious folks who were not strongly engaged in the political arena. they disgusted the political arena. they were more interested in the kingdom of the next world than this world. then came the early 1960s at a school player decision and then came row verses wade in 1973. you had the rise of the that jorty in time for the 1980 campaign. it was a democrat, jimmy carter and so this is an interesting development that one of the rationals for the carson candidacy is to make the point that a person of explicit religious faith should be running for president in part simply because of that explicit faith. that s something rather different than what religious folks have been historically in terms of politics. he has a lot of traits a lot of americans want.