I'd disagree on that considering these people trend toward obedience in everything like police/laws, Christianity, "traditional values," party politics, etc, etc.
I think it's more a superiority complex where instead of being boring nobodies, they're actually insiders with special knowledge that the rest of the masses don't have. Additionally, right wing propaganda gives them scapegoats to blame for all their life problems (financial, social, personal). Add these two together and you have the modern republican base.
Sure, if you retroactively go back and look for patterns where it matches something but that isn't a very useful exercise.