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This article is from the Conservatism FAQ, by Jim Kalb kalb@aya.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.

I was raised a liberal. Doesn't that mean that to be conservative I should stay true to liberalism?

How can you be bound to a viewpoint that does not value loyalty and
can therefore survive only if it is not accepted by most people? For
someone raised a liberal, the conservative approach would be to look
for guidance to the things on which the people with whom he grew up
actually relied for coherence and stability, including the traditions
of the larger community upon which their way of life depended. Those
things will always include illiberal elements that enabled the
community to function as such.