Straight White American Jesus - The Orange Wave, Ep. 2: Every End is a Beginning
Aired: 2022-05-10
Duration: 02:48


=== Moving West (01:56) ===

[00:00:00]  Axis Mundi In
[00:00:33]  In 1958, my grandfather told his family that they were moving to California.
[00:00:38]  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.
[00:00:48]  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.
[00:00:57]  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.
[00:01:06]  They left behind dozens of family members, and the only place any of them had ever known.
[00:01:10]  After an arduous journey, they settled in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles.
[00:01:17]  Eventually mom moved to Orange County, where she met my dad.
[00:01:20]  When grandpa died, my grandmother relocated too.
[00:01:23]  By the time my brothers and I came along in the early 80s, Mom fit seamlessly into the Orange County landscape.
[00:01:29]  Blonde, blue eyes, and just a hint of a Southern drawl.
[00:01:33]  Southern California had become home, yet it wasn't because Mom and Grandma left the South behind.
[00:01:38]  It's because they, and many others, have brought it with them.
[00:01:42]  Welcome to The Orange Wave, a history of the religious right since 1960.

=== The Orange Wave Introduction (00:51) ===

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