May 10, 2022 - Straight White American Jesus
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| Axis Mundi In | |
| In 1958, my grandfather told his family that they were moving to California. | |
| He was a cotton farmer who had had his crops wiped out by flood enough times that he was willing to call it quits, head west, and try something new. | |
| A short while later, they left Portageville, a farming town in the Boot Heel of Missouri, near the Tennessee border, to make the trek west. | |
| My mom, who was 8 at the time, and her younger sister were scrunched in the back of the family station wagon, along with all their worldly belongings. | |
| They left behind dozens of family members, and the only place any of them had ever known. | |
| After an arduous journey, they settled in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles. | |
| Eventually mom moved to Orange County, where she met my dad. | |
| When grandpa died, my grandmother relocated too. | |
| By the time my brothers and I came along in the early 80s, Mom fit seamlessly into the Orange County landscape. | |
| Blonde, blue eyes, and just a hint of a Southern drawl. | |
| Southern California had become home, yet it wasn't because Mom and Grandma left the South behind. | |
| It's because they, and many others, have brought it with them. | |
| Welcome to The Orange Wave, a history of the religious right since 1960. | |
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