ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the results and conclusions of a series of studies conducted by the author and Joseph Tamney on the Christian Right in "Middletown." Two hundred and sixty-two residents of Middletown who were going to vote in the 1980 presidential election participated in the study. The percentage vote for Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale in Middletown was again close to that nationwide, with 57 percent for Reagan and 43 percent for Mondale. The role of a Christian Right orientation was explained by pointing out that religious fundamentalists who believed that political action should be taken to "Christianize" the country would logically support a political organization, headed by a conservative religious fundamentalist, which is trying to do precisely that. Christian Right orientation and cultural ethnocentrism were directly and independently related to Moral Majority support, but religious television viewing and status quo orientation were no longer directly related.
