Soong Chan-Rah, a Korean-American pastor and professor of evangelism at Chicago's North Park seminary, says the rise in multicultural evangelical churches coincides with a decline in the numbers of traditional white evangelicals, and that the newer kind practise a form of evangelical Christianity distinct from the "white, middle-class and Southern" version.
As for fundamentalist Christian grievances with the school system – perceived as godless and unfriendly to their evangelical cause – Boston pointed out the "incredible mission field" that would be America's public school students.
It reflects the continued strong influence of the evangelical Christian lobby within the party".
A conservative firebrand and evangelical Christian who played a big part in the growth of the Tea Party movement, Bachmann was running in the sixth congressional district in Minnesota, which after boundary changes earlier this year became even more Republican than it had been.
Mr Sykes was the star turn of a rally thirsting for an evangelical speech.
Graphically, the relationship between born-again Christian and evangelical and the Romney vote becomes quite clear.
A successful progressive movement must now be Citizens Advice bureau, housing association, scout troop, trade union, credit union, bingo hall, food bank, careworker, football club and evangelical church, rolled into one.
In the case of two major sponsors, this meant imbuing them with evangelical Christianity, and in another famous case it meant having a fully functioning stock-exchange trading floor in the basement, to show pupils what really matters, which is, of course, making lots of money.
If any of the locals were in any doubt, posters declaring that "Tourism is everybody's business" remind them just how vital the industry is, while hotels take the message into local primary schools with evangelical zeal.
Wycliffe is hailed as a proto-Protestant hero by some sections of the church – an evangelical training college for priests at Oxford University bears his name – though his sometime nickname as "the Morning Star of the Reformation" is an association which Carswell may prefer not to emphasise.
"Actually, I think I can take that message into a white evangelical church anywhere in Iowa and give exactly the same speech and be received well".
