If you want to conserve "family values", that's a good thing - as long as you don't consider persecuting homosexuals a family value. If you want to conserve the "good old days" of slavery - or even the good old days when black people "knew their place" - that's a bad thing.
We don't hear as much about politicians running on 'family values', mainly because so many who did so got caught either in affairs , or soliciting prostitutes in public bathrooms.