Controversial conservative and former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore won the Republican primary for the state's Senate seat on Sept. 26, setting up a crisis within the GOP. [Moore wins Republican Senate primary, dealing blow to GOP establishment]And that's what Senate candidate Roy Moore has tapped into. “We have to return the knowledge of God and the Constitution of the United States to the United States Congress,” Moore said in his victory speech. The vast majority of Alabama voters — 86 percent — identify as Christian, and 49 percent as evangelical Protestants, according to the Pew Research Center. Not only did segregation laws not last forever in the United States, but some of them began to fall two years later after Wallace's election.

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2017 19:47 UTC