Honestly I can't read the moral values thing as anything but a phrasing issue. You seriously think the average democrat doesn't totally abhor the moral standards and ideology of most of the rest of the country?

The thing is the phrasing "Moral values" is too close to religious, they don't think they believe it when they do, they just call it something different. Ask about a country's ethical standards or generally use intellectualised phrasing and you'll get the opposite results.