It is all about what someone else can give them.
For such an old culture it sure is infantile.
Typical Democrat voter.
Let's say that I'm a Presbyterian and that a radical group of Presbyterians from another country blew up the Empire State Building, the Sears Tower, and Disneyland.
If I wasn't active in politics before, that might jolt me into being more politically aware. I would be mad at the bad Presbyterians who hijacked my religion and I would want to vote for a stronger America to make sure that sort of thing would never happen again.
Let's say once in a while I get stopped at the airport because I "look Presbyterian". I wouldn't be mad at the airport people. I'd be mad at the bad Presbyterians who committed the atrocities that gave me the bad reputation in the first place.
I might also be livid at Michael Moore if he released an anti-Presbyterian documentary that implied that the president was a crook just because he had business dealings with some non-terrorist Presbyterians.