I work with 17 people in a lab environment in the Deep South. About half work for one company and half for another. The demographics are interesting between the two: my company co-workers are majority female with mainly progressive views that we tend to hide from view due to company policy against political activism on the clock. The other company is staffed entirely by white males, of which most are very vocal conservatives.
Only two or three of the 18 of us are native to the area. We come from all over the country: Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and Maine (via England).
For the past 2 years the conservative voices have been the outspoken ones, the ones that drown out the rest of us. I know our silence encourages them and lets them think we all concur with the garbage they spew.
But the tide has turned in the past few weeks.