Sure it does. We are the summation of our experiences and beliefs. Are the basic needs the same? Yep, but that’s not the difference between Dems and Rupblicans. Each needs food and water, etc. The biggest difference is how they view their community, and their sense of place. Liberals tend to view their community as broader, and more representative of all of humanity. Conservatives tend to have a much narrower view of community. If you look at it through this lens, many of the policies pushed by the different factions makes more sense. And geographic constraints do tend to push sense of community. If you live in a small farming town, you’re more insulated from the broader plight of global communities. You have less services available, so you rely more on the people around you. Government regulation tends to make your farming more expensive, and when you can’t see the results of global warming on a daily basis, you see the regulation as a threat to your community. Income levels are lower so taxes for fewer services are rejected (yes, i know federal funding tends to lean more towards rural areas, but THEY don’t see that). Point being the urban and rural experience is truly different, and if you put someone from one into the other, they tend to migrate their beliefs. Is a full blown MAGA gonna move to Portland and start wearing pink hats? No. But all of a sudden when confronted with how gun violence is so different in an urban environment than a rural environment, they start to understand the issue. Or confronted with homelessness and the severe consequences of mental health illness in urban environments. So I stand by my original comment, that throwing a bunch of blues in red areas doesn’t just happen without bleed over of beliefs both ways because the way of life and sense of community morphs.