My experience is that people tend to be friendlier in parts of the map that are red. I'm actually not trying to make a political statement..... but values are different in certain regions. I have plenty of friends that vote both ways, and the majority of people on both sides are reasonable, thoughtful, kind, ethical people. I have lived in blue areas and red areas and got along fine in both. I've lived in the Northeast and in the West, in Europe for a couple years, in cities with over a million people and towns of a few hundred. I prefer old-fashioned values and small towns. Certain big cities skew toward traditional values and certain big cities are political clown-shows (San Francisco, Portland, LA, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis).
Most people I've encountered are good. All nations and societies have psychopaths and problem children. Good people tend to be, well, conservative. They're too busy running businesses and raising kids to attend rallies, get on TV, or run a stupid influencer blog. Outrageous activity and idiotic ideas get lots of press. Conservative values are boring and don't sell ad space. I've done 6-figure deals more than once with nothing more than a phone call and a handshake. No contract on earth is as sure as the word of an honest person.
It's no joke that people from Africa who visit the US are often apprehensive about the trip. They come expecting to see murders, overt drug use, and drive-by shootings on the regular. I suppose you can find that stuff if you go looking, but even in the worst cities it's just in certain neighborhoods.
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