Gov George Wallace ring a bell? John Birchers ring a bell? Some whites would be pissed if a minority moved into their neighborhood. Unfortunately, in the past conservatives had to deal with their fringes too. Good news is most conservatives have become Tea Party and frame their behavior within the Constitution/Bill of Rights. When I was young I started off as a liberal and Democrat, but I have left them because their social ideas and economic ideas do not work, and more important they have become more intolerant while the Conservatives have become more tolerant while the liberals became facist with PC.
Uhhh... George Wallace was a Democrat.
My husband was apolitical until he went to Berkeley. He noticed that the smart students in hard sciences who studied continually were conservatives. The idiots studying sociology, etc.. and never did the hard work were liberals.