Or maybe there's a local legend about how the mysterious swamp ooze will bring bodies back to life, for example one Bubba Lynn Krood and how he came up from the ground.

Hmmm, interesting. But I would suggest the Civil Rights Act is what planted the seeds for the Moral Majority:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/10/29/revisionis t-memory-white-evangelicals-have-always-been-at-war-with-abortion/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/03/11/this-is-wh at-abortion-politics-is-for/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/11/09/white-evan gelicalism-is-white-nationalism/

People know that LBJ said that the Civil Rights Act meant losing the South for a long time, but somehow people aren't good at seeing that the current state of politics is what LBJ was describing, where bigotry wins elections.

The worst part is, I used to say that the Civil Rights Act was the worst mistake the Democrats ever made, from a pragmatic perspective; it's a point I would make only to illustrate how we got where we are and what a huge impact the Civil Rights Act still has on Democratic fortunes. To be exceedingly clear, I'm very glad the Democrats pushed the Civil Rights Act and they've earned my votes for life. But there are swathes of the Left that seriously believe the Democrats are wrong to continue championing minorities; that's what the backlash against "identity politics" is about.

The American Civil Rights Act was important, but not for the little man in his rumpus room. It was all about losing "The Virginian" and getting it replaced with "All in the Family". America is a niminy-piminy, tiny, shit-for-brained place.