I find contradictions everywhere in the Brexit question among my friends and family; for example, my mother and father, who love holidaying in France and are seriously considering buying a house there to live in permanently, voted leave.
My usually very mild-mannered mother recently went on a crazy rant about 'immigrants' recently (complete with finger-pointing), saying that the NHS couldn't cope with their numbers and banging on about 'health tourism'. Both of these 'issues' have been proven time and again not to be the 'thing' stretching the NHS, but she was on a roll.
Next, she started bemoaning the fact that you can't buy unrefrigerated seafood outside of pubs in the east end of London 'like you could in the fifties'. Quite apart from the fact that my mother hasn't even been to a pub in the east end of London SINCE the 1950s, why would anyone who wasn't in the market for shitting out their own entrails from a massive dose of rancid cockles even WANT to purchase unrefrigerated seafood - from outside a pub in the east end of London or anywhere else?
I think the gist of this bizarre rant was something about an EU law demanding purveyors of seafood outside pubs refrigerate their molluscs! When I gently attempted to intervene and suggest that it was more likely our own, UK-made, legislation that had effected this, she refused to even entertain the idea.
Conversely, two of my old schoolfriends, who sometimes display racist and intolerant attitudes towards anyone 'not like them' (but also never interact with anyone 'not like them') both voted remain and are broken-hearted about potentially not being able to travel freely within Europe*. For them, that's the ENTIRE Brexit issue. Even though they wouldn't entertain the idea of having friends from different nationalities, cultures, religions or socio-economic backgrounds (strictly white working class all the way for these gals), they don't see any negative issues stemming from immigration at all - their particular brand of racism is derived wholly from the inherited ideals and beliefs of their parents and older siblings. They live in a bubble, really, and don't tend to widen their world view or experience through any tangible means. I was astounded when they both said they'd voted remain.
*by 'travel freely', I mean 'go on holiday in Greek & Spanish resorts catering exclusively to British tourists'.
My parents' politics have done a complete one-eighty since they moved from south east London six years ago to the Kent coast; to a sort of semi-retirement enclave for increasingly intolerant baby boomers. My father was a fully-paid up member of the Socialist Workers Party in the 70s, and now he carries on like the Alan Sugar of Thanet.