That was, basically, how we pulled this coming turn last time (and several times before that, though the 1950s one went the other way)

(also AIDS terminating a nascent queer arc and damping the spirit of free love in general, in addition to the rise of evangelical Christianity which was really about the integration of poor Southern whites into the modern economy. Actually the 1920s one was pretty down on fundamentalists in the first place, and the 1950s one was certainly experienced badly by poor Southern whites)