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In reply to the discussion: I just found out my sister and brother in law like Trump [View all]DFW
(60,139 posts)My wife has her family genealogy in a book which starts in the year 1473. She's near the last page. It's like that in Germany. My mongrel ancestry disappears into the mists of time before the 1850s. So, my daughters can trace one side of their ancestry to a northwestern German family in the Middle Ages and the other to some Mississippi River Boat gamblers, an immigrant lawyer from somewhere in what might be today's Poland and a janitor from South Carolina. Happy mongrels, we!
But, except for one loser cousin in Tennessee (on wife # I-lost-count) that I haven't seen in 20 years, I don't know of any other Republicans in my family. You'd have to dig deep to find a conformist among us. Whatever else we might be, hardly any of us ever ended up doing what someone else did. My dad loved politics, but since his father became a famous jurist, he became a journalist, eventually becoming president of Washington's legendary Gridiron Club. My mom was a bassist in a jazz group in NYC, then worked as an editor for Good Housekeeping, ended up building musical instruments and teaching ESL to Vietnamese immigrants in Virginia. My brother, my sister and and I all do stuff that has nothing to do with all that.
All Democrats except for my wife, who, as a German citizen, votes Greens or SPD depending on who fields the better candidates in her opinion.