Original sentence: Social conservatism in the United States is a right-wing political ideology that advocates against social progressivism, centred on the preservation of traditional beliefs.Social conservatives are strongest in the South, where they are a mainstream political force with aspirations to translate those ideals using the party platform nationally.Social conservatives describe their views regarding socio-political issues as 'traditional' or 'family' values.Social conservatives in the United States by and large ideologically support Evangelical proselytism.Social conservatives typically oppose marriage equality for individuals with unorthodox sexual preferences, and oppose abortion.The Republican Party (United States) is the largest political party with socially conservative ideals incorporated into its platform.The accepted aims of the movement often vary amongst the various organisations it comprises, making it hard to generalise about the ideological preferences of its professed adherents.There are, however, a number of general principles to which at least a majority of social conservatives adhere, such as opposition to abortion, LGBT rights, gender equality, and the acceptance of Islam in the United States
Edited sentence: Social conservatism is generally focused on the preservation of family values, primarily within the family but also with respect to society as a whole.Social conservatism may entail support for defining marriage as between a man and a woman (thereby banning same-sex marriage) and laws placing restrictions on abortion.Social conservatives are strongest in the South, where they are arguably considered a mainstream political force with aspirations to translate those ideals using the party platform nationally.Social conservatives emphasize traditional views of social units such as the family, church, or locale.Social conservatives would typically define family in terms of local histories and tastes.The Republican Party (United States) is the largest political party with some socially conservative ideals incorporated into its platform.The exception in how these conservative groups differ tends to be with respect to the role of the federal government versus the role of local government, where the "states-rights" conservatives tend to advocate for social reform and/or preservation of traditional values at the state and local levels.Today's mainstream social conservatives, in contrast to "small-government" conservatives and "states-rights" advocates, have increasingly appealed to federal legislators and Presidential candidates with the notion that the federal government should bear the responsibility to overrule the states in order to preserve their stated ideal of traditional values; this is not to take away from the fact that a significant portion of "small-government" and "states-rights" conservatives also share many of the ideals of mainstream social conservatives