Best friends.... forever?

My BFF from childhood and I are still in touch. We became friends in Grade 1, when it was just as hard to make friends, but easier to meet people than it is nowadays (haha) - After that first year, we were always placed into different classes but we remained BFFs. When my family moved from Canada to the US 7 years later, we kept in touch. We wrote letters, found stamps, and mailed them off. Our running joke was that we could never find a stamp, but we really were good about writing to each other until the internet came along.

Now we're almost 50, and we talk every year or so. So we're always catching up, rarely having day to day interactions. Every time I talk to her I remember that she's quite conservative. Last time we talked, she complained about drag queens reading to children, pride parades being too overtly sexual, and immigrants ruining the country. She apparently lives in an ultra-liberal area and she hates they way they approach laws there.

I live in a conservative state in the US, and I identify more with the bleeding heart people than the traditional values people. So we've become total opposites, but we have that love and warmth with each other since we've grown up being BFFs. We've stood at each other's weddings, but haven't really spent much time together.

I despise some of the things she says, and I don't really know what to do about it. Sigh.