That reaction tended to move them further from their particular religious identities, so that today many Presbyterian and Baptist colleges are just as secular as Yale and Harvard. In America it's been assumed that a single, government-run school system can teach values that will satisfy everybody in the community. That assumption developed in the day when broadly Protestant values were common. It's impossible for a single school system to represent all those views. We're still facing those issues, and gradually Americans are coming to see that a single educational system is not going to work.
Many fundamentalists seem to hold two views at once.
On the one hand, America is Babylon and under judgment. On the other hand, America is Israel, God's chosen nation. Fundamentalists are willing to take a stand, and that's often been a difficult thing to do. If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else. And so it's good that there are Christians who have said we need to draw a line somewhere.