You're probably right. The daughter of the arch-conservative and traditionalist Catholic Congressman John Schmitz was Mary Kay LeTourneau, the notorious pedophile schoolteacher in the state of Washington. Of course, she is an extreme example. However, when we look at the leftward drift of many wealthy and politically prominent families, such as the Chandlers of Los Angeles Times fame, the Tafts of Ohio, the Rockefellers, and even the Kennedys of Massachusetts (founding father Joseph Kennedy was once described by his son, John Kennedy, as a Taft Democrat), there is a disturbing pattern. Similarly unreassuring is the list of prominent conservatives and Republicans who had children who are perverts or liberals: Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Phyllis Schafly, and Douglas MacArthur, to cite some examples.
Institutions also drift leftward. The leftward drift of the Ivy League universities, as well as other prestigious colleges like Duke and Georgetown, has been ongoing in some cases for well over a century. What has happened to the locally run, community based public schools of pre-1960 America is well documented. Churches also suffer from such a drift. Cardinal Roger Mahoney, perhaps the most liberal Catholic prelate in the country, serves as Archbishop of Los Angeles, a position once held by Cardinal McIntyre, the most prominent American conservative critic of the Vatican II reforms. The Southern Baptist Convention, having defeated the old school mainline-style liberalism in the 1970s and 1980s, is under assault from neo-evangelicals like Rick Warren, who do a better job of hiding their liberalism under a "Christian" cloak than do the old school liberals in the largest mainline denominations. Even big corporations are not immune. Many Fortune 500 companies have sensitivity training and diversity programs far more intrusive and obnoxious than those the Feds and the states administer internally to their staffs.
With some luck, the Republicans may bounce back in the 2010s if the Democrats fall back on their old habits of increasing taxes, environmental lunacy, social engineering, and permissiveness toward crime. They have a habit of turning to the New Deal/Great Society playbook. A return to Carter-style humiliation of the U.S. military and American businesses overseas will also aid in a GOP comeback. Attempts to suppress the Internet and talk radio will probably boomerang to their disadvantage as well. However, until social and cultural conservatives can topple the death grip liberalism has on the nation's educational and cultural institutions, political conservatism will continue to fight a losing battle, as it has since the 1930s.
In the long run, the grandchildren of the "little old lady from Pasadena" will not produce many offspring for a number of reasons, and Hispanics and Asians will occupy their old neighborhoods, not only in Pasadena, but in Scottsdale, Puyallup, North Las Vegas, and Littleton as well.
It is a losing battle. Conservatives are unlikely to become College Professors except to maybe teach math and/or science.
Anyone who sends his children to public schools is prima facie guilty of child abuse.