Entry:

Tamney, Joseph and Johnson, Stephen, "Anti-Modernism: The Moral Majority in the United States," Paper presented to the American Sociological Association, New York City, September, 1986.

Abstract:

Popular support for the Moral Majority is explained by the acceptance of social traditionalism. Supports favor traditional family roles and school prayer, and are opposed to sex education, abortion, pornography, the women's liberation movement, and legal rights for homosexuals. In Middletown, 90 percent of those with highest commitment to social traditionalism, support, are neutral, or don't know about the moral majority while 50 percent of those least committed to social traditionalism oppose the moral maj

1977

Other Data Sets:

Middletown 1981-1984; Gallup 1981, 1986; Dallas-Fort Worth Texas 1982