Colin, you only have to marry once to get enough experience not to do it again.
Conservatives are really "roll back" mentality people, looking to get back to that better time of the parents, grand parents, whatever. They are often gentle luddites, wanting to stop the progress that is changing their way of life.
While i don't suggest anyone here is a racist, many of the most conservative people are also from the "bob Jones University" crowd, wanting to return to the times of segregation, separation, etc. For them, their "better time" was when the US still had a back and front to the bus.
Conservative "caring" is the kind dictated by the social group, not by common sense. They of course care for their families, etc. Yet they cannot seem to care for people less fortunate then them (unless they consider their mexican nannies as less fortunate), cannot see the values of a social programs to advance and / or protect the masses.
if you suggest a social program of any sort near a conservative person, they will get excited, jump up and down, point fingers at you and start yelling "COMMIE PINKO BASTARD!" while dialing 922 (conservative emergency number, works only in the midwest and southern US) to summon up the shock troops to mount a protest, pass a bill to outlaw the social program, and slander the people making the thought.
Oh yeah, and they will say "god bless america" at the end.
Conservative. Is it another way of saying "uncaring sheep?"
Alex