all the ones i know are either homophobic AND racist, for example, or one or the other. if they aren’t racist, they hate gays and if they aren’t homophobic, they hate people of color.
that’s the only people i know of. i knew a bi girl who was/is conservative but she doesn’t talk much about politics so idk what she is now. anyway, she loved trump and HATED immigrants of any kind but she wasn’t at all homophobic.
meanwhile, my ex-gf called gays the “alphabet community” said she was one of the good sapphic girls and said that latinos and haitians are animals who eat dogs and they’re evil, coming to kill all the americans. she’s also blasian so idk how she’s so racist, her grandma was an immigrant from vietnam.
Throughout the American South, there are lots of “nice” conservatives. They’ll invite you to church and be friendly towards you and maybe invite you over for dinner…and then talk about how “those people” – a group that includes you – are “destroying America” and shouldn’t be here.
The problem is “nice”. “Nice” is very different from kind, caring, or even empathetic.
I will say that in the Trump era, a lot of these folks no longer feel like they “have to” be “nice”, and so increasingly they’re just not anymore. It means that the area is more openly mean, but it’s because there’s no longer the fake veneer of “nice” to hide how cruel they really are.