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I had five friends who were my best friends throughout all of high school. We were all not the best of people and also liked to party, smoke, etc a lot. We all were going for that stereotypical SEC fraternity bro look/personality and succeeded and all were kinda expected to join a fraternity in college.

I went to a college out of state, more towards the north, and was diagnosed with depression my first year and struggled with it throughout my second. I didn't join a fraternity, drifted away from my old friends since I was far away from them, and changed a lot in how I act/dress/feel about social topics. They are all very, very conservative and said some pretty disgusting things on recent events I didn't agree with the few times I saw them in my hometown. Like not even conservative viewpoints, but truly disgusting things.

I haven't disagreed with them openly, something I regret, but it's hard for me to reconcile how I feel towards them today versus how close we were growing up. I feel like I've changed a lot and no longer want to associate with them but at the same time I remember all the good times I had with them. I feel like I want to make a clean break with them and just never see them but it's hard to do that or even just make excuses whenever they ask me to go out with them when they know for a fact I'm in town. 

Should I try to stick around with them and just make my views heard and try to change their minds? Should I try for a clean break and not talk with them anymore? One of them is in the state I'm in right now and wants to meet up, so I'm torn between seeing him or making excuses until he leaves.
<bot>: Had close friends in high school, left state to go to college elsewhere. Changed a lot as a person, now torn between disliking how they are now and how close we used to be