Pretty sure my political beliefs were pretty shitty when I was at UT in the early 90's. "Enlightened" is not a word I would use to describe my 20-year-old self.
Yes, where there's money (in Texas for sure) more often than that, people are going to be conservative and quite a few are of the MAGA variety.
As I said above, I was an idiot in college (my wife might argue I still am from time to time). However, I would think Arch's family would understand the political climate in this country and would strongly urge Arch to just leave all of that alone. Or maybe they're just shitty people and don't GAF.
Continuing on in the baseball-players-are-assholes-discussion, I can concur that this was my experience having to deal with athletes in college and the pros over a 10+ year period in the sports media biz. NHL hockey players were by far the nicest athletes I encountered. Then I'd slot in football and basketball players next. Baseball players as a group were the worst. A few golfers could be just as shitty as the shittiest baseball player but a lot of those guys were great too.