In short, no.
To clarify, my connection to Syria is via my husband. He grew up in Damascus, his school was fairly mixed, he had a weekend job in a shoe shop owned by Christians, etc. There are lots of churches in Damascus and also a wide variety of ethnic groups, such as Kurds, Circassians, as well as a large number of refugees from Iraq.
However, he has always been anti-regime and like other anti-regime Syrians I've met, they've always been wary of Alawites, as Alawites are usually pro-regime.
Syrians, even when not in Syria, would always be extremely wary of talking about politics with other Syrians unless they knew they could be trusted. As if you said one wrong word in the wrong ears and you would go "behind the sun", so-called, because if the Mukhabarat (secret police) got you, that's where you might as well be.
That sounds melodramatic, but it is very sadly true. One of the worst things about Syria, is that every where you looked, there were pictures of Assad snr and jr, you could never forget who owned the country.
The Alawites are a very interesting group, it's a small sect, you can only be born an Alawite, you cannot convert, and they all originate from the coast.
When Hafez Assad began his ascent towards power, one of the first things he did was to get all the Alawites on his side. There is detailed writing about this elsewhere, but he removed/killed the Alawite religious leaders and in a sense, but himself in that role, hence he is revered almost to the point of worship by most Alawites.
There was such a cult of personality built around him, that part of the daily pledge made by schoolchildren was "Our blood and our soul to our eternal leader comrade Hafez Assad".
This interview with an actor who fled Syria gives are very good insight into how the regime manipulates people: www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/15/jay-abdo-syria-film-refugee-actor