I'm not surprised. When I used to travel for work, most of the people I met around the country were actually quite conservative. Maybe not in quite the same way everywhere, but we all cared about our families, our homes, our way of life, the freedoms we share, and our country.

In CA, the widespread opinion was that San Fran and Hollyweird were like black holes - the closer you got to the event horizon, the more reality became totally distorted until you fell in and were lost forever.