My mom was the same, a GOP in good standing who stood up for the rights of females be educated and have a career.  My mom told me in the 1960's" never let the government in your bedroom" and that "the rich are on a mission to destroy the middle class".  My mom was referring to a then case in Georgia where they had enacted a law making sodomy between a married couple illegal. My mom also volunteered on the Rockefeller election campaigns and decided that the rich are going to do away with the middle class.