Republican by birth ; Democrat by education

[dhinojosa]

Poll question: Republican by birth ; Democrat by education

Do you fall into this category?

[BrainRants]

1. Nice bumper sticker slogan! n/t

[Der Blaue Engel]

2. Fundie by birth

Agnostic pagan by education.

[MrSlayer]

3. Actually I do.

As painful as this is to admit, my first two Presidential votes went to Poppy. I didn't wake up politically until about 10 years ago.

[Shoeempress]

4. Catholic republican by birth. Atheist Democrat by education and

"orphaned" for those decisions.

[TomPainesBones]

5. I'm the only Left-wing Liberal

in an extended family of over two dozen Conservative Catholic, right-wing, isolationist, racist, bigoted, abusive, Bush loving, Clinton hating, religious hypocrites.

I cut ties with ALL of them over a year ago and haven't looked back since.

Best decision I ever made.

[sweetladybug]

6. I was born a Democrat and I'll die a Democrat

[TomPainesBones]

13. I was born a Liberal and I'll die a Liberal (regardless of upbringing)

I just consider The Democratic Party the best tool we have for fighting our political enemies.

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Oh wow

That must really suck. My dad is the only republican in our house but he has said he liked Clinton so that's good for me. :)

[Nay]

7. Catholic Dem by birth, atheist Dem by education.

[dhinojosa]

8. almost like me

Catholic Dem by birth, agnostic Dem by education

[PatrioticLeftie]

21. Exactly like me! n/t

[populistdriven]

9. YES, but by the time I graduated college I had converted both my parents

[FreedomAngel82]

31. Good job!

I converted my mother. She now doesn't like any of the republican politicans. She used to love our Congressman but I told her he voted for the Terri Schavio nonsense and last April she said she was going to vote straight democratic in this next election. Yay! I still have some hope for my dad. :) Thanks to Jon Stewart.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Democrat by birth.

But I have alot of admiration for people who were born to Republicans and who were able to see the light and come over from the dark side. I think it must take alot of courage to question and reject beliefs you were raised with.

[dhinojosa]

12. I wish I could nominate responses...

This would be one.

[Crunchy Frog]

17. Thank you!

You're making me blush.:blush:

[ginnyinWI]

32. not so hard

I got to mid-life, and all of those assumptions I was raised on just crashed and burned. Had to figure it out all over again, and ended up a Dem. And glad of it! :)

[Wordie]

49. I also greatly appreciate your comments.

Yes, it does take a lot, and costs a lot, and that's why I for one am sometimes somewhat impatient with the litmus tests that a few around here try to apply. Glad that not everyone does.

[KansDem]

11. Registered "Republican" for 1972 election...

...but voted for McGovern! Been voting "that way" ever since.

Family was, and still is, strong GOP. Not me, though...:)

[damntexdem]

14. How did DU get such a high representation of ex-GOPs?

But I come from a Democratic, working class family.

[dhinojosa]

15. Good sign though! ;)

:woohoo:

[Totally Committed]

16. I was raised by Republicans, but cannot remember a minute

when my sensibilities, sympathies, and feelings were not Democratic.

I was so unlike anyone in my family, my father used to say if I didn't look like him, he'd wonder where I came from. Some people are just like that... nature not nurture applies here.

TC

[TomPainesBones]

18. Ahoy, fellow black sheep!

:hi:

[Totally Committed]

22. Right back atcha!

:hi:

You too, huh?

TC

[Wordie]

50. another black sheep checking in...

[AspenRose]

58. Kids are born to push their parents' buttons ;-)

eom

[Zodiak]

19. My parents were apolitical

But North Texas did its job of making me into a libertarian, racist, bigoted asshole at the time of my graduation from High School. I didn't have any idea I was that way until I went to college.

Boy did my eyes open fast! I just needed more information...actually, all I needed was SOME information. North Texas is really, really big on jingoism, and I was all-American boy. I still am in many ways, but I no longer trust our government nor our system of wealth and power distribution.

[PatrioticLeftie]

20. Catholic Democrat by birth

Agnostic Democrat by education

[liberal43110]

23. I was mistaken for Barry Goldwater's granddaughter in high school....

I was a Young Republican in high school in Phoenix. Went away to school in New Orleans and registered to vote as a Democrat. Just kind of knew I was more a Democrat, even then. By the time I was a sophomore or a junior I was self-identifying as a socialist.

[adaada]

24. ...and this results in iconoclastic ideas that piss EVERYBODY off. LOL

I think that when you come from one side of the political divide, but end up on the other, your ideas still don't quite mesh perfectly with those who have been on one side all along.

I think you are more inclined to question. Questioning can get you into trouble.

[dhinojosa]

47. Questioning in this case has been insightful....

Look at the percentages. WOW!

[ellenfl]

25. i never knew what my parents politics were but

my mother has always been a progressive. i can remember discussing politics when i was in high school (MANY years ago) and always thinking as i do now. i only became a democrat (was previously registered 'independent') so i could vote in primaries. that was about 15 years ago. i always claimed to vote for the person, not the party, but i truly haven't voted for a repug in many, many years.

the repugs, imo, have no social conscience. i have more christianity in my atheist little finger than most of today's self-righteous 'christians' have in their whole body. these words made a huge impression on me when i was 18 . . .

“That the atheist who believes in man and scorns God is closer to holiness than the religionist who believes in God and scorns man." Sidney J. Harris

amen

ellen fl

[SiouxJ]

26. That would be me

my parents are still shrub votin', propRushganda listenin' to, Faux watchin', kool-aid drinkers. Sadly we're not very close anymore.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

27. Can I vote four times...

on behalf of my four Democratic siblings? It doesn't speak well of my Republican parents' skills at indoctrination.

[AntiCoup2K4]

28. Democrat by birth, Liberal by education

Parents are Democrats, though my dad actually voted for Nixon in 72 and Reagan in 84. He never considered voting for either Bush for even a second. I think I've actually dragged them both to the left at least a little bit over the last several years. They were calling Chimpy the Antichrist even before I did! :evilgrin:

[dhinojosa]

36. haha.

that's a great story

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Yep

Both of my parents are republicans and so are majority of my family members. I'm the only loyal democrat I know of (I consider myself an FDR, Kennedy type) in my family. My Mom is no longer a republican though which is good and my grandmother I'm not sure about but she and my grandfather both don't/didn't like Bush. My dad is an old school republican (think of a Roosevelt type) but still voted for Bush. Why? Dunno. Never asked. I have gotten him to watch the daily show though. I remember being young and my parents watching the convention during the election year and I always wanted to go and be a republican. The party itself and me have both changed since then. My views are a lot different thanks to me just growing up and learning and educating myself.

[Mz Pip]

33. That would be me

My Dad was a hardcore anti-FDR Republican, though he was mellowing a bit by time he died in 1968. I remember putting a Nixon/Lodge bumpersticker on one of my school books in 1960. I was 11 so I don't really think I should be banned because of that.

I lived in an extremely conservative area outside Chicago.Heney Hyde served it well for a gasillion years. Not really too surprising since the Dem politicians way back then were pretty corrupt.

Then there was the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the Chicago convention. Been a liberal ever since. And I am never turning back.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[deadparrot]

34. My first political memory was being scared seeing Gov. John Ashcroft on TV

circa 1992.

Plus, I was born to two liberal teachers. So I'm assuming I was born this way. :D

[dhinojosa]

35. Were you 18 and first started voting in 1992? nt

[deadparrot]

37. Nope. I was five.

:)

[dhinojosa]

38. Damn, 5 years & scared of Ashcroft....

that man has a way of scaring everyone.

[deadparrot]

39. I'm gonna be 19 in February, and he still scares me.

I cried when he was appointed AG.

[Hippo_Tron]

40. Democrat by birth, farther left Democrat by education

My whole family is Democratic, but I'm the most liberal of them all. I've gone to the left of them on things like the death penalty, free trade, healthcare, etc.

In general, though, all of us punch straight Democratic tickets.

[stevebreeze]

41. My parents were democrats

I blamed Johnson for an illegitimate war. Wallace was a dem. My first vote was for Tricky Dickey. I had a lot to learn. Now I am a democratic precinct committee person.

[Wabbajack]

42. My first political memory

My mom not minding me chant "Fuck Dukakis" during the 88 convention.

She wasn't even very politcal back then. Now she's gone fundiecatholic.

My dad is from Iraq and is a moderate supporter of the war.

:(

[Stinky The Clown]

43. My parents were Roosevelt Democrats

and died that way.

Dad was a union member ... shop steward.

I remember walking a picket line with him when the Singer (sewing machines) plant went on strike in the early 50s. I remember him and my mother figuring out how to make that meager strike fund check go the distance until the next one (if there was going to be a next one) but saying they'd never cross that picket line.

They were good people, my Mom and dad. Inclusive, loving, caring people. When it was cool to be so and when it wasn't so cool.

I love them still and miss them dearly.

[RayOfHope]

44. Yep, hence my usermane

My father is so nuts he could be a PNAC signatory.

[Politically_Wrong]

45. I have to live with three Republicans...

my parents are both Republicans and so is my sister...so lucky me...but thanks to things like DU i have somewhere to go to after a heated political argument with the family...

[dhinojosa]

51. I bet you win the arguments too....

just curious do you?

[Politically_Wrong]

54. Haha...well...

...I don't win all of them...but I would say about 80% of the time I get the last word...which usually shuts them up!

[Arugula Latte]

46. My parents were moderate Repubs 'til the late 80s/early 90s

voted nixon, nixon, ford, reagan, reagan, possibly bush 1, don't remember.

then the nutbags went too far and lost them. They voted clinton, clinton, gore, kerry.

mom is actually registered as a Green now and hates the repukes

Although i campaigned in 5th grade for ford, reagan changed me profoundly into a liberal. I myself proudly cast my first vote for walter mondale in '84

[Wordie]

48. Parents: Goldwater Repubs; Me: first vote ever was for Shirley Chisholm

We didn't quite see eye-to-eye!

[burrowowl]

52. Born a Socialist!

and die a Socialist (or maybe a Troskist)!
However, in the U$ of A can only vote Dim!

[njdemocrat106]

53. Catholic Democrat by birth

Catholic Democrat by education. Yep, I was raised by Gawd-fearin' parents, but I THINK I turned out ok (ask anybody outside my immediate family who knows me and they will probably refute that :) ).

[Wordie]

55. What is a "Catholic Democrat" as opposed to other ones? (serious question)

I really am not sure what people mean by this.

Edited to add:
And since I noticed several people who responded to the question with that answer, I thought I would ask.

[Wordie]

57. I meant no offense by this question. Won't SOMEONE answer? eom

[cyn2]

56. 5 sibs: 2 rep. 2 dem. 1 apolitical

Our family seems to split in the 60s. Born into a republican household. First two children who attended college in early 60s are worst kind of repubs.

Second two attended college in late 60s and early 70s. Very liberal.

Youngest who attended college in late 70s, apolitical.

Go figure...

My first political memory is of my oldest sister leading a neighborhood parade with an "I like Ike" flag.

My first presidential vote in 1968 was for Eugene McCarthy.

[dhinojosa]

60. Late 70s was about disco...no time for politics.

;)

[Arkana]

59. Liberal born, liberal bred,

and when I die I'll be liberal dead.

[StudentOfDarrow]

61. Nope.

Born into a very pro-union Democratic family.

[Captain Ultra]

62. partially

my dad is a liberal republican, and my mom is a conservative democrat.

I just cut out two words for my own idenity.

[StudentOfDarrow]

63. Welcome to DU, Captain Ultra!!!

:hi:

[Ignacio Upton]

64. Born apolitical, gradually became a Democrat

I actually voted for Bob Dole in my school's mock election in '96 (I was 8, almost 9 then) because, after talking to my mom about who was President before Bush Sr. (Reagan) I had this idea that Presidents should only serve four years in office. That was the only reason. Four years later, I voted for Gore, mainly because I was disgusted with Bush's attacks on McCain and how he brought his nomination. At the same time, I realized that I agreed with the Democrats on a majority of major issues, so I consider myself a Democrat. Unfortunately, I can't wait to vote for Spitzer and Hillary in 2006, my first election.