As an european, I often picture myself US like a mix between european culture and japanese culture. The brand and flavor is european, but everything is pushed to the extreme (from an european point of view) like in Japan.
That pattern seems to repeat itself as an anti-globalist revolution in the present, and one closer to the French Revolution in some aspects.
Here, I'm using "European" in the "Western European" sense like you presumably are. Eastern Europeans have an anti-Communist bent that resembles rural Americans' behavior.
Evangelicals are highly into their churches, which tend to fly below the analytic radar.
And surprise the "experts" at election time.