What is the political make up of your family?

[jorno67]

I often wonder where the hell do these right wing nut jobs come from....so I looked in my own backyard first.

Dad - Liberal - Degree in Social work from a state college (at age 47) after working some 25 years as auto mechanic. Disabled. Poor Health most of his life due to diabetes. Liberal Wife (second) 4 kids (adult)

Mom - Conservative - Degree in psychology from a Baptist College (at age 44) - Worked as probation and parole officer - now retired. Was a one issue voter (pro -life) but has bought into the rest of the propaganda. Raised us three kids with the help of welfare/food stamps/government cheese/etc...Remarried a very conservative man (now deceased) in her mid 40's. - 3 kids (adult)

Older Brother - Conservative - Technical School (6months) in TV/VCR repair - now works for the phone company. Liberal Wife (second) 4 kids

Me - Liberal - Theatre degree from a State University - Worked exclusively in the Entertainment industry. Liberal Wife (one and only) 3 with 4th on the way.

Little Brother - Liberal - Masters in counseling - Undergrad in Psychology Both from a State University- 6 years USMC - is a crisis counselor for the University he attended. Liberal Wife (one and only) No kids

so in my family liberals are winning 3-2 and if you count current living spouses its a it's a 7-2 win for us Libs!

Of course all of my cousins, aunts, uncles, and in-laws are bat shit crazy right wing. can't win em all!

What about your Family?

[Curtland1015]

1. Everyone in my family is a dem/liberal except for ONE uncle.

He, his wife, and their kids are all conservatives.

He is a banker and very religious by the way.

Kind of the "black sheep" of the family.

[loli phabay]

2. no idea, never asked anyone, probuably just run the spectrum as most families

[rrneck]

3. Conservative republican fundamentalist christian.

I'm the black sheep.

[magical thyme]

4. immediate family was 3 GOP, 2 Dem

and currently 1 GOP maybe in dementia, 1 teaparty headcase married to likely GOP, but maybe another teapartier, and 2 dems. The 1 gop and married teapartiers will likely be gone before the dems to obesity and cancer.

Not sure about the rest of the family, except 1 cousin who is a member of the GOP 1%

[twizzler]

5. Myself and wife-liberal

All 3 daughters are conservative and all 3 are police officers like their mother and father were. Never demanded them to be liberal, we let them go their own was as far as politics. When they are over for dinner or holidays, there is a standing rule that politics are off limits. Seems to work pretty good.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. I'm an Anarchist, my wife is a Marxist.

[slackmaster]

7. Mostly deceased. My mother's side is traditionally Republican, my dad's parents were Pinkos.

[valerief]

8. Blue eyeshadow only. No red lipstick. nt

[jwirr]

9. Liberal Democrats since FDR. One grandson is a paulbot. He is not registered to vote though.

[jorno67]

16. That's the best kind of paulbot!

[jwirr]

21. Agreed. I have done nothing to encourage him.

[abolugi]

10. We used to say

my Dad was liberal except when it came to his daughters..

My whole family is pretty liberal. My sister is quite religious but very understanding and not in your face about it.
My brother is Gay and a Buddhist. My brother being Gay has helped bring a lot of the family to a more liberal stance in general.
He's married and its hard to hate someone you love so much.
As a matter of fact when my brother came out to our family he sat my parents down said " Mom and Dad I have something to tell you...
I'm gay" And my Dad, without missing a beat said Thank God.. I thought you were going to say you were a Republican"


I have a great family!

[blaze]

31. Love your dad!!! nt <g>

[liberalmuse]

11. Split.

My mom's side are all diehard liberals - very well informed and actively working in the Democratic Party. They know their stuff. My mom was a very difficult person - very diehard fundie, and voted for Bush twice, but the torture thing was the beginning of her opening her eyes - all that stuff my sister and I told her over many years came rushing through after that. It was hard for her being an Obama supporter and being a fundie, but she managed it. She ended up helping to campaign for Obama, and loved him and defended him literally with her last breath, and it was so hard for her to breathe towards the end.

My dad's side are mostly Republican. A couple are rabid right wingers. One of my cousins is well known, and you can find his stuff all over the net. My favorite cousin, who is gay, was disowned by his dad, not because he was gay, but because he came out as a Democrat, LOL. I really like my uncle, but his political emails bashing Obama got to be too much, and I coudn't find a way to respond in a way that wouldn't anger him, so i stopped responding. My other gay cousin appears to be a Ron Paul supporter - I don't get that. Last time I saw my female cousin was when I stayed with her in San Francisco back in 2001. I was there to protest Bush vs. Gore. I've heard since then she went a bit nuts and is now married to a millionaire. They bury their guns in the back yard (without even wrapping them) now because they're afraid Obama is going to take them away. Her kids are more liberal, but it's just weird to see her go right wing because she was never the political sort, and if you told me she'd ever own a gun, I'd be shocked, but she does have some mental illness.

I'm not so sure about my aunt - too afraid to ask. My aunt and uncle divorced as soon as the last kid was out of the house. Oddly enough, she ended up marrying a guy who used to be in my church - a once staunch Mormon. It was one of those odd coincidences. I had a crush on his son when I was a teen. Now he's sort of family, LOL. Nice guy, and a great family. He's no longer active, but his kids are uber Mormon still.

[Betsy Ross]

12. Left

I come from a long line of socialist atheists.

[Freddie]

13. Almost all liberals, thank God

Lots of teachers/retired teachers who appreciate the good life made possible by their union.
One cousin (another teacher, go figure) is a staunch diehard Repug, but I don't see her often.
Was concerned when my daughter started dating her husband, as he is from a good Southern Baptist family and was partly educated in Christian schools. However she got him to see the light and he is now just as "Michael Moore Liberal" as the rest of us!

[hobbit709]

14. On my mom's side-hardcore Socialist. My stepdad's-Democrats.

all my siblings(2 brothers, one sister) are liberals. I'm probably the most radical leftist out of the bunch.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Almost all FDR Democrats.

The two exceptions being my mom's brother, who was one until he started hanging out at the VFW hall. Now, he's a typical brain-dead rethug. The other being my brother, who, deep down, probably still is one, but married a rethug, and hangs out with a bunch of rethugs. He has a bigot streak in him, and they really bring it out, unfortunately. And, sadly, it has also rubbed off on his only child. I cut my nephew some slack, because he had some head injuries when he was younger, and his head is kind of messed up at this point.

I'm sure a few of my cousins have also gone over to the Dark Side, but I haven't seen any of them in years.

[raouldukelives]

17. I'd say my fam is about 95% conservative.

At least 70% of that being rabid Tea Party aficionados. The rest are just going through the motions after a lifetime of Reagan worship. Sometimes a synapse will fire and they will squawk something but mostly they just eat, sleep and watch Glenn Beck.

[jorno67]

24. "eat, sleep and watch Glenn Beck"

what a horrible fate...so sorry.

[demosincebirth]

18. We are all Catholic and democrats except one niece who attends and Assembly of God...she's

hard a core teabagger.

[RebelOne]

19. My son, his wife and my daughter are all Democrats.

My daughter's soon to be ex-husband claimed to be Democrat, but he voted for Bush in '04.

My two grandsons are both Democrats (though one is not old enough yet to vote) because I taught them that they should be.

My 2 sisters are Republicans, though I have convinced one of them that Obama will be the way to go in this next election, but there is no way her husband will vote for Obama.

I don't know about my mother and father because they are both deceased. But my mother loved the Kennedys, so I know she voted for JFK. My father was an atheist like me, so he was probably a Democrat. I never discussed politics with my father because he died in the '70s.

[cali]

20. OK, here's mine:

Father: Diseased. Manufacturer and inventor. Life long dem. Early supporter of Jimmy Carter. Degrees from Johns Hopkins, Univ. Chicago and Berkeley.

Mother: Life long active dem. League of Women Voters. Delegate to 3 National Conventions. Refers to most of the world as the "hoi polloi".

Sisters (2) Public School Teacher and Artist. Both dems.

Brother Very liberal. Dem.

[Shankapotomus]

22. I'm the only progressive

Father, mother, older sister and brother, all vote republican. They are missing it.

[BOG PERSON]

23. my parents are total fascists

[alphafemale]

25. My dad was pretty much like that character Clint Eastwood played in Gran Torino

He would casually throw out every insulting racial epithet you could imagine. He wouldn't have hurt another person or treat someone unfairly or discriminate to save his own life.

My mother on the other hand? Saw such language as beneath her. She told me...when I was invited on a weekend trip by a school friend. That I might as well not come home if I went. They were...uh...GASP!!! black.

Parents are both dead.

Aside from a Libertarian/Republican nephew who is just 6 years younger than me and we adore each other and we would fight to the death for each other...

The rest of us are hard core Dems.

[kestrel91316]

26. All quite liberal except for my BIL's mom. She's a HS dropout and good churchgoer,

living in OH, so that's no shock.

The rest of us are all college educated and give a damn about our fellow humans, even if they don't go to our church.

[get the red out]

27. Kind of interesting

My Mom is a liberal, my Dad (no longer with us) was a liberal, my sister and I are both liberals who married Republicans. They aren't the religious right abusive kind, we couldn't deal with that. Her husband is convinced the Democrats are coming for his guns and my husband thinks the stock market and job outlook would be better if people paid less, and less, and less....taxes. They are both completely wrong in their assumptions, but it's like talking to a couple of brick walls.

[AsahinaKimi]

28. parents are both Democrats

I have no siblings.

[Blue_In_AK]

29. My dad was an FDR Democrat,

my mother an Eisenhower Republican, but she became more liberal as she grew older. I'm sure if she were alive today, she would be a Democrat or at the very least registered Independent. She did not care for Reagan at all.

My older brother leans Libertarian, but I'm guessing he usually votes Republican, although he's pretty fed up with politics all around, at least that was the feeling I got the last time I saw him, which was last summer.

My younger brothers are both Democrats.

My three daughters are all Democrats.

Since my older brother lives in Florida, and I don't have to see him often, he presents no problem in the family dynamic at this time. Back in my hippie days, we used to have some rip-roaring fights, but we've all mellowed out with age. We just don't talk much politics now when we get together.

My husband is a Democrat. His kids are both extremely racist Republican tea-bag types living in Texas, and he and they have nothing to do with each other. He hasn't talked to his son in over seven years (despite repeated attempts), and the last time he talked to his daughter she got really pissed off when he called her out on her racism and he hasn't talked to her since. I know it hurts him, but he has basically written them off. My kids have enough love for him to make up the difference.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. Before my generation, Republicans since time immemorial.

For a long time I was the political black sheep. My parents, both of whom have passed away in recent years, were Republicans, though more of the old-school type (not fundies or hard-core Randians). Their surviving siblings, both sides of the family, are also Republicans. So were all of my grandparents, as far as I know. One of my brothers is starting to see the light - he's always been pretty apolitical but he recently launched into a rant about what a complete idiot Romney is. I suspect his wife is a Democrat, and one of his kids is, for sure. The other one won't say anything because everything she does and says is to please her gun nut boyfriend (don't get me started on that). My other brother is a bit to the right of Darth Vader, and his wife is worse; they are of the anti-tax, anti-government wing. I don't know how they can make common cause with the fundies, whom they detest, but I guess they'll do anything to keep their taxes low.

I used to get into some pretty intense arguments with my dad during the Vietnam war (I was one of those hippies), but eventually we just agreed to disagree and left it at that.

[PDJane]

32. Ah, well..........

The immediate and geographically closer family are Progressive atheists. Two brothers and their wives are conservatives, for the most part. One niece is a liberal, one a conservative. Oddly enough, none of them are in tune with the current conservative government.

And none of them are born agains or find religion at all entrancing.

This is probably a good thing.

[Va Lefty]

33. Here is the voting history of my family...

1960: Mom-Kennedy
Dad-Nixon
1964: Mom-Goldwater
Dad-Goldwater
1968: Mom-Wallace
Dad-Wallace
1972: Mom-McGovern
Dad-Nixon
1976: Mom-Carter
Dad-Ford
1980: Mom-Reagan
Dad-Reagan
Me-Reagan
1984: Mom-Mondale
Dad-Reagan
Me-Mondale
1988: Mom-Dukakis
Dad-Bush
Me-Dukakis
1992: Mom-Clinton
Dad-Clinton
Me-Clinton
1996: Mom-Clinton
Dad-Dole
Me- Clinton
2000: Mom-Gore
Dad-Gore
Me-Nader
2004: Mom-Kerry
Dad-Kerry
Me-Kerry
2008: Mom-Obama
Dad-Obama
Me-Obama

I am acutely aware of the mistake I made (Reagan in 80 ). The reason I voted for Nader in 00 is that I live in Virginia, at that time a safe bush state. I thought that it was important for Nader to get 5% to get matching funds. I believed that we needed a viable third party.

[chieftain]

34. My parents, aunts and uncles were all FDR Democrats.

Abortion has split my big Irish Catholic family in half. My brothers, sisters and several cousins have kept the liberal faith. The other half have all gone anti-abortion obsessive and have moved to the GOP.

[Major Hogwash]

35. Both kinds, country and western.

I think there was 1 cousin that was thinking of leaning towards becoming a Republican a few years ago because his wife came from a Republican family.
But, after McCain picked Sister Sarah to be his veep candidate in 2008, he changed his mind.

[jorno67]

37. love the Blues Brothers reference

[northoftheborder]

36. Most Dems, but differences in younger ages....

My parents and grandparents were FDR Democrats, as am I. My only sibling is a radical Libertarian/Republican, his wife - Rep. conservative. One of his children is lib Dem. other one non political. My children and spouses: three - Dem. liberals, two - uninterested in politics, probably Independent leaning conservative. That counts to 11 Dems, two Repubs, three uninterested or leaning conservative. This is my immediate family, three generations.

[femmocrat]

38. We are all life-long democrats.

My mom was an Eisenhower republican, but she never voted, so it didn't matter.

[deaniac21]

39. No one in my family

uses make up.

[jorno67]

40. good to know....?

meh...