To be fair, the Republican Party of the US was the more socially responsible party vs the Democrats up to about the 1920’s, as they were the party of Emancipation. They slowly slid away from a party that championed the oppressed in society throughout the 20th Century and became more corporate in their interests, especially from Nixon’s administration onward. They only went into Tea Party irrationality within the last decade or so.
But I digress.
A favorite word of mine that changes meaning, in this case British English to American, is “rubber”: the top of a pencil meant to erase words, or a prophylactic?

My father's side of the family has ancestors from Catholic Northern Ireland. If I had grown up there, with my socialist political leanings, I likely would not have ended up non-violent and would instead most likely would have joined the IRA, as did some of my distant relatives from there. Geography changes more than just meanings of words.

With the hindsight of history and the luxury, perhaps, of having grown up Catholic in the US, I see the IRA's use of violent revolution as not worth the cost. But if I had grown up there and then, it probably wouldn't have deterred me.

I've heard some countries where voter divide in many different ways social conservatives but economic liberal who doesn't trust government