...or the rest of the world: I think I'm generally regarded as fairly conservative, politically -- for my environment, northern Europe, so probably a raging leftie pinko librul commie socialist in American terms. (Those right-wing American people you mentioned would most likely be slotted in as "somewhere between Hitler and Attila the Hun" here, and I don't mean just the literal Nazi.)

And I notice I'm getting more "conservative" in my software and coding preferences too. Now, I hope I'm still open to new stuff and to learning -- but, eurgh, most of that "new stuff" is such a... mess! "Why write a shell script with a bit of SQL in it when you can spin up a Kubernetes cluster with umpteen nodes each running umpteen services?" Though I much prefer calling this "conservatism" something else, like "coming ever more to realise the virtues of simplicity". (Or maybe even -- dare I say it -- "wisdom"?)

But yeah, adjusted for political scale / nomenclature, I concur with your theory / hypothesis. (Hope I count as "left" on your scale.)