McGirr (2015) is a social history of mid 20th century conservatism in Orange County, California. Williamson, Skopal, and Coggin (2011) is a sociological study of the emergence of the tea Party with participant observer research in Massachusetts.
Stewart (2017) led me to research James W. Bitfield, Jr., a Congregationalist minister who "set about convincing America’s Protestant clergy that America was a Christian nation in which government must be kept from interfering with the expression of God’s will in market economics."
==History of American Conservatism==