The Suburbia Nobody Knows

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3. Add reduction of government and support from the Religious Right.

In his first inaugural speech in Jan., 1981 Reagan said government is the problem not the solution. In America's democratic republic, the people are the government. They vote to elect representatives to carry out the will of the people. The conservative Right wanted smaller government for the purpose of less regulation of business and less taxation on the rich, all to benefit the wealthy and corporations.

- The Moral Majority was an American political organization and movement associated with the Christian right and the Republican Party in the US. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell Sr. and associates, and dissolved in the late 1980s. It played a key role in the mobilization of conservative Christians as a political force and particularly in Republican presidential victories throughout the 1980s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority#:~:text=The%20Moral%20Majority%20maintained%20their,on%20school%20prayer%20and%20abortion