ISBN:
9780691150550
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9781400839759 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
765 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781400839759
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Religion
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Politik
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Politische Kultur
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Kansas
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Online-Publikation
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the state is a hotbed of antiabortion protest--and churches have been involved in all of these efforts. Yet in 1867 suffragist Lucy Stone could plausibly proclaim that, in the cause of universal suffrage, ""Kansas leads the world!"" How did Kans...
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Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
