Here is an article I found interesting

     The link is here.
     The public has gotten more conservative over the years. But they are not, as a whole, more conservative than the people the extrmists like to call "Republican In Name Only." The public does not want a return to 16-hour work days with pay being 5 dollars a week in script that is only good at "the company store." If you have to advocate that sort of thing to be a "true Republican," then I don't want any "true Republicans" in office.