Many or even most of the divisions in America today date back to the Civil Rights era and have been with us from that time; cThe Right ombined several emotional issues to cd-1960's. Opposition to the Vietnam war was branded "unpatriotic" by conservatives because the reasoning behind that war was we were fighting sgainst "Godless Communism." And the right held onto that even after we came to our senses and got out of Vietnam but soon after that 9-11 happened and provided a "Pearl Harborlike Event" that George W. Bush used to justify invading Iraq though it is documented that the plsn had been laid out years before 9-11 so that we could capture Iraq's oil fields (PNAC). So the Right combined several emotional issues to create a powerful political force they combined white resentment of Civil Rights, simple minded flag waving patriotism, objections to birth control and abortion combined with Evangelical Christianity, fear of women's liberation and gay rights and called it opposition to "Woke". The Right gained significant power this way which is still exerting tremendous desire to move our nation back to what conservatives view as better times so I just wanted to pick one major part of their coalition and look at where it really came from. I'm old enough to remember the growth of the major parts of the conservative coalition appearing in American politics and when they seemed to join other parts to create what Trump named MAGA, though without specifying the year that was so great we should want to return to it but it is obviously in the past, probably 40-50 years ago.

"KKK was/is ostensibly "Christian".

I think moost Evangelicals still have their KKK robes and hoods stored up in their attics just in case they are needed again.