was destroyed by the ultra-funded and ultra-organized ultraconservative movement. Traditionals naturally resist change, and the ultras intended, and intend, enormous change. Traditional Republican politicans were run out of office, and traditional voters have no one to vote for even if they hadn't been served the Kool-Aid themselves for 30 years.
Note that traditional conservative is a personality type, not just a political orientation, so they're still around. No one knows if this weird election could mark some of them refinding their own voices. At least, I've read of no signs yet, but then analysts didn't know they were supposed to ask if people would vote for a socialist running as a Democrat.
Oh, what's real? Beats me. I assumed you meant traditionals, but
Traditionals are mostly "temporally oriented," the kind who just want things to stay the same. They idealize the calm security of Ozzie and Harriet, but don't really worry about diversity so much -- except as it means change. The part of the GOP that worked with the Democrats to create the New Deal programs.
Social conservatives mostly want everyone to be like them and can get really hostile and aggressive toward everyone who is not, which is in America...most people. These people, whatever their skin color or background, tend to resist diversity. Most religious conservatives are social conservatives. If some clerk is giving you his special treatment because you're a different color, he is going to one of these. They're also almost all authoritarian to some degree -- they tend to want government that will force their ways on everyone, and of course authoritarianism comes naturally to devout religionists. Tea Party, John Bircher Society, GOP "base."
Economic conseratives are money and property oriented.
Mild, moderate, strong, extreme, and flat-dangerous versions are available, as well as an infinite variety of combinations. They all tend to believe in a natural hierarchy based on who "deserves" to be privileged or not, rather than in the equality of men, putting them at odds with our founding principles.
Then there are the libertarians, often mistaken for liberal because of their focus on their own personal liberty. They're not and usually orient with conservatives.
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