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Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's book, "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy," is a good preview of what kind of campaign the former Fox News host will run if he makes a bid for the White House in 2016. As the title of the Republican'sbook suggests, it would be an effort dripping with culture-war rhetoric and identity politics that the larger GOP has largely tried to leavebehind.

It would be about fly-over country (the realAmerica!) versus that other (not-so-real?) America -- theAmerica where people don't do stuff like ...accuse the first family of hip-hop of something amounting to prostitution.

Huckabee, turns out, didn't at all like that time Bey performed her song "Drunk in Love" with her husband Jay-Z on stage at the Grammy Awards. (Note: Huckabee watches the Grammy Awards but isn't aware of theBeygency. Consider this a heads-up).

He writes in his new book according to excerpts from U.S. News & World Report:

My reaction: Why? Beyonce is incredibly talented gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom. Jay-Z is a very shrewd businessman, but I wonder: Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object?

Nope, it probably didn't occur to Jay-Z that he was a pimp when they co-wrote the song or when they walked off the stage like any other married couple arm in arm. And it's such an odd leap that it's almost not worth engaging. (For the record, Beyonce is the one that upgraded Jay-Z, but we digress).

But Huckabee's attack on Bey and Jay is just a sample of the kind of us-versus-them cultural rhetoric that couldbe part ofthe GOP primary raceif the Southern Baptist minister jumps in. Don't expect many attempts to make concessions from Huckabee on this front. No talk about how"Modern Family" is a great show(Romney)or how,while there might be an allegiance to the sweater vest, that doesn't mean sex hasn't been had (Santorum).

Huckabee's rhetoric will play big in evangelical circles, who see the Grammy performance as part of thedecline of good old fashion American values. (At some point, Elvis Presley's swiveling hips were also a threat).

And for the GOP field, it could tie them to the type of culture fights they really don't want to have and frankly the type of fights that don't really have much cultural currency anymore, beyond a select few. A recent poll showed the idea that government should be in the business of "traditional values" is very much on the decline from 55 percent in 2004 to 41 percent today.

But Huckabee could also provide a very easy contrast for the rest of the field to emerge as the anti-Huckabees. By simply steering clear of these Bey/Jay/culture-in-decline arguments, they could gain a little easy pop culture cred and a centrist sheen.

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Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's book, "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy," is a good preview of what kind of campaign the former Fox News host will run if he makes a bid for the White House in 2016. As the title of the Republican'sbook suggests, it would be an effort dripping with culture-war rhetoric and identity politics that the larger GOP has largely tried to leavebehind.

It would be about fly-over country (the realAmerica!) versus that other (not-so-real?) America -- theAmerica where people don't do stuff like ...accuse the first family of hip-hop of something amounting to prostitution.

Huckabee, turns out, didn't at all like that time Bey performed her song "Drunk in Love" with her husband Jay-Z on stage at the Grammy Awards. (Note: Huckabee watches the Grammy Awards but isn't aware of theBeygency. Consider this a heads-up).

He writes in his new book according to excerpts from U.S. News & World Report:

My reaction: Why? Beyonce is incredibly talented gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom. Jay-Z is a very shrewd businessman, but I wonder: Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object?

Nope, it probably didn't occur to Jay-Z that he was a pimp when they co-wrote the song or when they walked off the stage like any other married couple arm in arm. And it's such an odd leap that it's almost not worth engaging. (For the record, Beyonce is the one that upgraded Jay-Z, but we digress).

But Huckabee's attack on Bey and Jay is just a sample of the kind of us-versus-them cultural rhetoric that couldbe part ofthe GOP primary raceif the Southern Baptist minister jumps in. Don't expect many attempts to make concessions from Huckabee on this front. No talk about how"Modern Family" is a great show(Romney)or how,while there might be an allegiance to the sweater vest, that doesn't mean sex hasn't been had (Santorum).

Huckabee's rhetoric will play big in evangelical circles, who see the Grammy performance as part of thedecline of good old fashion American values. (At some point, Elvis Presley's swiveling hips were also a threat).

And for the GOP field, it could tie them to the type of culture fights they really don't want to have and frankly the type of fights that don't really have much cultural currency anymore, beyond a select few. A recent poll showed the idea that government should be in the business of "traditional values" is very much on the decline from 55 percent in 2004 to 41 percent today.

But Huckabee could also provide a very easy contrast for the rest of the field to emerge as the anti-Huckabees. By simply steering clear of these Bey/Jay/culture-in-decline arguments, they could gain a little easy pop culture cred and a centrist sheen.

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On issues like gay marriage and birth control, cultural warriors haven't changed their mindsthey just want to be left alone.

Lauren Giordano/The Atlantic

It's a semiannual tradition in America: the culture-war debates. Is there a culture war in America, ask pundits and professors and journalists, or isn't there? And if there is one, is it over yet?

As with any tidy narrative, the culture war can be somewhat shape-shifting, invoked in ways that diverge from how the sociologist James David Hunter first wrote about it in 1991. But the gist is this: In debates over social issues like abortion, homosexuality, and birth control, American culture and politics is divided into two camps: the orthodoxor traditionalists, or conservativesversus progressives. Often, these issues are discussed in terms of religious values and religious freedom. Accurately or not, "the culture wars" are often referred to in terms of religious America vs. secular Americaand, sometimes, the Christian right vs. everyone else.

As Pat Buchanan said in his speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, "There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself." But today's culture war, if there even is one, doesn't seem to be about winning America's soulit's about people's right to live their lives according to their beliefs.

The past year saw a renaissance in culture-war thinkpiece writing, with the fight being declared over and not over and over again in many turns. That's because many of 2014's big news stories touched on culture-war standards, like gay marriage, public prayer, and birth control. This year's list of Big Issues could have easily been from the 1980sthe heyday of the Moral Majorityinstead of 2014.

But the fascinating thing is that these issues of culture-war vintage have played out in distinctly un-culture-war-y ways. Unlike the alleged culture wars of yore, these legal battles aren't about shaping culture and laws in favor of one side or anotherthey're about individual conscience.

Is the Most Powerful Conservative in America Losing His Edge?

Gay marriage, for example, has been a long-simmering, divisive political issue. Same-sex marriage is now legal in 35 states, and in nearly a dozen others, court decisions for or against same-sex marriage are pending. In November, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld same-sex-marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, which will likely lead to a Supreme Court review of the issue.

Arguably, the many court decisions that overturned same-sex-marriage bans last year were enabled by shifts in public opinion, which has steadily moved in favor of gay-marriage legalization over the last decade. Yet, as I pointed out in March, a slim majority of Americans still think gay sex is morally wrong. What can be made of this apparent contradiction?

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