I agree more conservative than the media likes to think or have folks believe but I think the nation is more liberal in the modern cultural sense than ever....for a variety of reasons:
2000 election......very liberal candidate got 48.4% of the popular vote
2004 election ....an even more liberal candidate got 48.3%
By contrast McGovern....comparable ....maybe even less liberal actually since many of today’s leftist standards like affirmtive action, rigid gun control and fed abortion funding, the rise of the homosexual privilege, etc were not on the table in his day......George got only 37.5%
Carter was not near the lefty in 76 that he is now....more a Scoop Jackson Southern Modrut.
Mondale got 40%
Dukakis got 45%
*note how we do worse against psuedoconservatives
anyhow....we are in trouble demographics wise in my view....there are only some ever shrinking segments of our culture stemming this tide but I fear some of their spawn are not up to it
Although it’s anecdotal, I believe that there are many voters like I have in my family: they’ve voted Democrat because their parents, or their family has always voted that way. They are blue-collar, and generally very conservative, but they vote the party, not the candidate.