Not said: Does the availability of conservative Catholic churches, as opposed to liberal ones, matter in the equation?
I suspect that conservative Catholics would travel a long way to worship at a conservative church, but not at a liberal one. And liberals do not want to travel very far at all to attend even a liberal church with watered down faith.
I am only one Catholic woman and I do not speak for anyone but myself. As a devout traditional practicing Catholic I would prefer a conservative parish, however I would travel a very very long way indeed to worship and receive the body and blood of Jesus. He is still there, even at a liberal parish.