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It would provide significantly useful evidence, if we had no other information to determine the truth of the tenets of conservatism. Given that we do, and that the 'evidence' provided by who believes liberalism vs conservatism is not strong, I suggest it is better to ignore it.
Why? Because using these sorts of arguments are very dangerous because they so readily degenerate into overvaluing social proof.