What would be the best series of events to make the United States of America a real theocracy? I'm just thinking about how bad it could really get. Militarist, heavily influenced by evangelical churches, white-supremacist, lots of HUAC-like organs to purge the country of "dangerous" and "anti-Christian" elements, etc. etc.
To do this I think you'd need to detach the most secular and liberal parts of the country from the USA, such as the Pacific states and the northeast. Also, I wonder what POD could lead to successful black revolutions in the southeast that succeed in creating independent ethnic republics.
Any ideas for PODs to totally trash the American dream and replace it with something much darker?