What I'm picking up isn't "anti-American" but "anti-conversative American." I could be wrong on this, but I do hear foreigners mention "red states" an awful lot.
Of course they mention "red states." No doubt that's how the anti-Americanism gets packaged and fed to them in their own LSM.
And of course conservatism gets equated with Americanism. We're not as conservative as conservatives would like, but compared to the rest of the world, America is a quite conservative nation.
My point is you seem to be agreeing with them, as if you might tremble if you had to drive a rental car through Texas or fly in to Tennessee.
Don't you agree that what foreign tourists formulate about our country has actually very little to do with what conservatives in the red states are all about? And, since that's true, that it's not relevant at all to the impact of this debate?