Arizona has always been very conservative. As a history footnote, the Arizona territory actually voted to secede from the Union at the start of the Civil War and a battle or two was fought there.
That would be Sibley and his boys who were stopped by the 1st Colorado at Glorietta Pass in 1862. While acting for the Confederacy, he really wanted to form his own country. How can AZ be so conservative and continue to vote for a$$holes like mcvain and flake? Of course we have our own set of idiots in Colorado.