Love your tagline!
As long as Creationists (i.e.; flat earthers) continue to spew their uneducated views among conservatives, we will continue to be perceived by the left as uneducated bumpkins.
It isn't the radical left so much that bothers me. They'll never accept us. It's the great political middle, the one-time Reagan Democrats, the one-time Rockefeller Republicans, the one-time Perot voters, the not-yet-polarized people looking for someone to make sense. We can't be wearing a clown suit when we talk to the country.
"As long as Creationists (i.e.; flat earthers) continue to spew their uneducated views among conservatives, we will continue to be perceived by the left as uneducated bumpkins."
Considering the fact that you live in an unpopulated, rural portion of California, and not LA, NY, or Boston, you ARE an uneducated bumpkin, even as an atheistic evolutionist.
What made you think you weren't a conservative bumpkin? Have you been living on another planet... oh, that's right, it's California.