The plural of anecdote is not data. Since the divide between sex is so much larger, and geography about as large, it's quite obvious political affiliation is not a causal factor. Probably, personality traits associated with sex is far more likely. And with geography, people in less infected areas have less cause to be paranoid. That some people might express these underlying motivations in terms of political objections, well, so what? That wouldn't change their behavior if they did otherwise.

Since you ignored my final point, I'll repeat it: If the underlying cause has nothing to do with political ideology except coincidentally, then trying to argue it on that basis is pointless. Causation is important.