Perhaps they favour small government and low regulations and taxes? The problem with left/right is that there are several axes of policy you can be on. Old scho

Perhaps they favour small government and low regulations and taxes? The problem with left/right is that there are several axes of policy you can be on. Old school left can be socially conservative which is why a lot of left leaning people seemed to veer right. Free market + socially liberal folk that were previously right are now seen to be more central as the political gravity moves around.