I would not buy a house near deplorables
If I could avoid it.
I took my ailing pup for a ride yesterday and ended up in rural Pennsylvania (near Quarryville). I was admiring the rolling hillsides, corn fields, farm houses, etc. and visualizing living in a nice quiet area like that. Then we rolled by a string of houses with confederate-traitor-loser flags and a couple also adorned with Trump 2020 signs. That was pretty much it on our hour-long ride, but it occurred to me that I would definitely need to assess any area I might move to for political compatibility. Until this current crop of Republicans have been thoroughly eradicated. I cannot imagine the stress and angst it would cause me to be living next door these cretins.
I live in a solidly blue area of Wilmington, so I don't worry too much. A couple randos floating around with Trump stickers and one honking giant sign on someone's shed facing the highway, but I know they're viewed as the whack-job minority around here.
My friends that moved to Maine used to live near Oxford and had a beautiful house with a beautiful view of farmland---but their neighbors on either sides did not like dogs and both have Trump signs up near their front doors. Blech.
I feel bad for people stuck in deplora-ville and wish you strength in surviving and, hopefully, creating some change there--if nothing else by being an example of what normal people are like.
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My bad. Well, my D friends will help take out Collins, at least 
I lived in New Providence when I went to Millersville University. And those houses I saw were close together, so maybe it was a little subset of cretins. I'd have to have a bigger space so I couldn't directly see/hear them or have to interact with them. I don't remember anyone being obnoxious, but it was a very different time back then. 45 has exposed the slimy underbelly of the party.
Side note: saw 3-4 Amish buggies on the ride
On 10 acres of pasture and woods in KY. But we are surrounded by crazed rethuglicans who will never change. The occasional Confederate flag, and trump signs. This past weekend, someone even set up a tent in town just to sell trump paraphernalia. It was busy.
I've been debating on putting a Biden sign out at the road, but what's the point. It probably wouldn't last long anyway, even if our little country road is not traveled much. Maybe I could get away with a McGrath sign....
nationally.
Whenever you hear someone these days talk about how they like smaller towns where people know each other and/or how they long to get away from the city and idealize rural life, those people are most often conservatives. They long to be part of homogeneous communities of people like them and are repelled by the changeability and wonderfully diverse choices of urban areas. Valuing conformity in everything from paint colors to major life choices, more than individuality, is one of three major conservative personality characteristics.
Liberals are doing the same separating out by preferences, but choices of the excitingly changeable places full of diverse experiences we want are, of course, far more limited for most of us. The more beautifully blue the more expensive. So some liberals also seek "the country" as an alternative and may find themselves isolating as you have because country insularity encourages conservatism.
And us for the same reason. But we do look for friends. There are conservatives who'll be good friends with liberal Democrats, one Jewish, invading from outside, and by definition they aren't the awful ones. In fact, I'm pretty sure some of our GA friends would identify liberal if they grew up elsewhere, but guessing that thought's probably never crossed their minds.
I've never been in your position, but I have moved to the country with my husband where we were outsiders among people who've always divided the world into them and everyone else. I think you're vastly underestimating the amount of good will there is where you're moving; it's not all meanness and rejection. As I said in my other post, I believe some of those Georgians who became friends are liberal by nature, or at least naturally open minded and generous, and that strongly affects the kind of GA conservatives they are.
Imo, what you really need as the best way to "be careful" is the relative protection of familiarity and plenty of acquaintances, people on your road and in town who feel they know you and will reassure others you're okay, and accepted by them. You'll have to get out and make that happen, of course. If it's hard, maybe you have an outgoing friend or relative who could visit and help make it happen?
But for sure introduce yourself to your closest neighbors; it's basic manners and okay if they're standoffish as long as you leave them knowing your name, where you're from, what you do for a living, and generally feeling that they don't have to worry about their new next-door neighbor. Take walks on local roads where you feel safe until you've met more of your new neighbors and they're used to seeing you around. As someone's who's been there, I can recommend working where you can be seen at the bottom of your drive and along your frontage sooner rather than later. Look up when people drive by to invite them to stop and check you out. Wave. Etc.
We planted for privacy and to screen out ugly, and the road, but I think we overdid it a bit. Now I appreciate more that leaving at least some view in and out from neighboring houses helps neighbors look out for each other. Not enough to tear it out, though. 
I've no doubt you are going to love the country itself, of course. It's so lovely to step outside each day into your part of it and to go to sleep to the evening chorus of the millions of critters you share it with.
grow tall as quickly as imagined, and for sure I'd never dream crawling back to the house wondering if I could make it up the stairs to take a shower or should lie down in all my dirt and wait for my husband to drive me to the ER.
