WPF: Styling a Generic Base Control

Is it possible to provide a default style for a generic base control in WPF?

Assume I have the following base classes:

public abstract class View<T> : ContentControl
    where T : ViewModel
{
    static View()
    {
        DefaultStyleKeyProperty.OverrideMetadata(typeof(View<T>), 
            new FrameworkPropertyMetadata(typeof(View<T>)));
    }

    // Other properties, methods, etc in here
}

public abstract class ViewModel
{
    // Other properties, methods, etc in here
}

Then assume I have a two classes which inherit from these base classes:

public partial class TestView : View<TestViewModel>
{
    public TestView()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    // TestView specific methods, properties, etc
}

public class TestViewModel : ViewModel
{ /* TestViewModel specific methods, properties, etc */ }

Now I want to provide a default style for the base control that all my derived controls use:

<Style TargetType="{x:Type local:View`1}">
    <Setter Property="Template">
        <Setter.Value>
            <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type local:View`1}">
                <Border Background="Magenta"
                        BorderBrush="{TemplateBinding BorderBrush}"
                        BorderThickness="{TemplateBinding BorderThickness}">
                    <StackPanel>
                        <Button>Test</Button>
                        <ContentPresenter ContentSource="Content" />
                    </StackPanel>
                </Border>
            </ControlTemplate>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

However, when I use my TestView control, I don't have the template markup applied (and thus any content i might define in the XAML of my TestView control is not in the visual/logical tree).

I am basically trying to take my base view/viewmodel classes and apply a consistent look and feel. This of course works in the non-generic base view cases. However, I require the type-safe hook up between view and viewmodel so I can call methods on the viewmodel from anything that has reference to the view (which I know may not "sit well" with the way some people have implemented MVVM).