have prospered in America's climate of religious tolerance and civil rights. The lessons of our unprecedented experience of acceptance and success must be carefully considered by our community." The Free Muslims Coalition was created to eliminate broad base support for Islamic extremism and terrorism and to strengthen secular democratic institutions in the Middle East and the Muslim World by supporting Islamic reformation efforts. See also First Party System Second Party System Third Party System Fourth Party System Fifth Party System Sixth Party System American election campaigns in the 19th century Ethnocultural politics in the United States Gilded Age History of the United States Democratic Party History of the United States Republican Party History of religion in the United States Politics of the United States References Further reading Compton, John W. 2020. The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors. Oxford University Press. DeCanio, Samuel. "Religion and Nineteenth-Century Voting Behavior: A New Look at Some Old Data." Journal of Politics 69.2 (2007): 339-350. online Gjerde, Jon. The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 (1999). Green, John C. "How the Faithful Voted: Religious Communities and the Presidential Vote in 2004." University of Notre Dame Program in American Democracy a Matter of Faith (2005). online Guth, James L., et al. "Religious influences in the 2004 presidential election." Presidential Studies Quarterly 36.2 (2006): 223-242. online Hirschl, Thomas A., et al. "Politics, religion, and society: Is the United States experiencing a period of religious-political polarization?." Review of European Studies 4.4 (2012): 95+ online Jensen, Richard J. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971) online free Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures(1979) Putnam, Robert D. and David E. Campbell. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (2012) Smidt, Corwin Smidt and Lyman Kellstedt, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics (2017) excerpt Wald, Kenneth D. and Allison Calhoun-Brown, eds. Religion and Politics in the United States (2014) excerpt External links Booknotes interview with Garry Wills on Under God: Religion and American Politics, December 30, 1990. United States Politics Politics of the United States