So much attention has been focused historically on the differences between conservatives and liberals, that the very different psychological under pining for libertarianism which is part of the Tea Party movemnet, has been neglected. Jonathan Haidt at the University of Virginia, whose work I have previously cited, has conducted some very interesting research on this topic summarized at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1665934
The research has interesting implications for political conflict in the US and concludes:
Abstract:
Libertarians are an increasingly vocal ideological group in U.S. politics, yet they are understudied compared to liberals and conservatives. Much of what is known about libertarians is based on the writing of libertarian intellectuals and political leaders, rather than surveying libertarians in the general population. Across three studies, 15 measures, and a large web-based sample (N = 152,239), we sought to understand the morality of selfdescribed libertarians. Based on an intuitionist view of moral judgment, we focused…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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