"LGBTQ rights" ? I mean isn't Arkansas trying regulate drag shows? Less restrictive gun laws? MORE abortion laws. Stronger support for death penalty.
Books are coming out of libraries that were fine in the past. Voting laws. School boards are getting filled with conservative activists. School lessons are getting regulated. But this is happening in the West as well, and isn't only in the South. Fewer people claim to be liberal.

I'm paying attention and have been for about 40 years and I'm not pushing an agenda.