American fascism will be Evangelical. Many fascist movements use religion, and that connection will be especially strong in American fascism, which has grown out of the Evangelical movement of the South. Fascist movements tend to use the predominant religion in the area as a form of control, and no religious movement is more potent in America than Evangelicalism. Evangelicalism is itself authoritarian and obsessed with primacy, making it a religion that lends itself to fascism. American Christofascism has roots in the Great Depression, when preachers like Gerald B. Winrod and Gerald L.K. Smith (of the original America First) fused nationalism and Christianity, and continued through the John Birch society and the Moral Majority.