Hear ya.
My extended family is 1/4 prot (my side), 3/4 catholic (wife’s side, what with the no birth control and all) and the rest of the defense league is neighbors, friends, etc. who may be even agnostics or democrats.
But, even the unbelievers know we got something special goin’ on and don’t want to jack with us.
I’ve got most of the young rednecks in the area attuned to my version of reality.
In my town of 40K people, which had been Scottish and Irish (at one pont supporting 5 fish-and-chip joints), the private clubs used to be divided along sectarian lines. When “whiteness” was criminalized, those barriers disappeared and the clubs consolidated into a smaller number of places where just being from the British Isles was good enough (they circled the wagons). Obama has harmed race relations irreparably, but he “didn’t start the fire”.
While the northeast is liberal in many regards, it is one of the most segregated parts of the country; even the support for abortion isn’t out of sympathy for Sandra Fluke - it is to ensure that Newark NJ never stops providing abortion to those who “need” it.