Joining us now hillsdale professor of history, portrayal of american conservatism. Professor hart, whats the definition of an evangelical . Thats a hard question but the simple one that i heard used is anybody who like billy graham. Our viewers may not know who billy graham. It means someone who has had a personal relationship with jesus, kind of bornagain experience. Theres a longer history and a longer answer when you get in that history. Host can you lump evangelicals in one position or another . Guest you can in some way if you look ethically of people of british decent or englishspeaking background. Those protestants were important of formation in 20th century and also important constituency of regan and bush coalitions. Theres affinity between that english background or scottish background protestants and with the Republican Party and people of dutch or german decent may have been at wasnt point in the Democratic Party because the democrats were a coalition of ethnic groups and s