Where I was raised probably accounted for my parents being lifelong democrats but they were hard working patriots that were of the great depression, never grasping the truth, although my mother finally conceded that Reagan was OK. Mother died shortly after Reagan entered office, dad passed a few years earlier.
Dad's family migrated from Virginia after his grandfather fought the Civil War as a Yankee Captain, came by covered wagon into Illinois finally making it down through Missouri into Oklahoma settling in the a small town with no sewage or running water. My Great Grandfather did not live long enough for me to know him but had friends that did know him. Oh well.....
Sounds like your old family and mine probably would have agreed on a lot. My gramps immigrated from Germany( hidden Jewish on one side, royla lineage on the other) and spoke German and yiddish but irregular as German and Yiddish was frown upon through WW-1 and II. Other side was Ukrainian pogroms so they ran to Germany and eventually America somewhere in the later nineteen hundreds. Other side best I know was Swedish and they migrated somewhere around the 1850’s but don’t know much.. One died in the First Bush, other in Clinton years. Gramps liked the Birch society, was a doctor and a Colonel in the army. I got most my views in politics from grandpa.