Why's America more conservative than other Western Nations? Plus party challenge

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The Democrats are not like the Tories. I might add something more substantial, but for now:

Is it though?

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I would say:

The failure of a socially democratic, labour or socialist party to become a true mass movement. Instead unions found themselves hitched to the old Democratic Party (which really, when you think of it, must have one of the weirdest histories of any political party out there). That prevented any real radical tradition aside from ephemeral third party movements in Wisconsin/North Dakota/Minnestota etc. not that the modern Democratic Party is essentially different from the NDP or Labour or Partie Socialist or the PSOE, but history matters.

The wedding of religion to markets has created a uniquely political strain, separate from the old and proudly irrelevant state religions of Europe.

Of course, I would not argue that the U.S. is the most conservative country in the Developed nations. Japan is far more conservative, as are the Asian Tigers. One can argue that Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Austria are also more conservative countries, in some sense.

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It's interesting theory, but I wouldn't take too much atock by it. After all Japan is very ethnically homogenous and also one of the more conservative nations in the First World. Similarly, Canada as Al noted, has been ethnically heterogenous since the beginning with the francophones and the natives yet is widely considered more left-wing than the U.S.