They did this, they did, for the sake of a Yankee carpetbagger so he can keep giving rich Yankees tax cuts and hope if they ever come driving through the South, they'll give the cashier at the Walmart a nice big tip and drop off a bag of high quality meth at the trailer park.
Conservatives never threatened to abandon their home nation? What, they do it in secret? Have you ever met any immigrant? I mean, even over there in England (Trump changed the name from Britain United Kingdom whatever to England)? How could you even use the word conservative after encountering any of them? Immigrants are conservatives, with actual conservative values and culture. Bri'ish who call themselves Conservatives are Council Housing dead enders who are somewhat dissatisfied with their lackluster excuse for a future.
Over here in the United States of America, it may come as a surprise , but there's more to the Constitution than just the Second Amendment. The fact that it's called an amendment and second is a clue that it might not be the entire parchment.
Like America of yore previous to the 20th Century, everybody on Earth is a conservative. It's the basic default.
Being a progressive liberal whatever you want to call it is an extracurricular activity of the bored better educated middle class. And the only thing they're abandoning is Ohio to go become a Hipster in assorted gentrifying locations in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
When you see a Conservative plastering bumper stickers of the Confederate flag all over the place, it isn't because they admire the symmetry and other aesthetic qualities of the design. It's because they want to destroy the United States of America, 160 years after they failed even that.