Your parents: Left or right?

[Mendocino]

Mine are about as right as could be.


Have never voted for a democrat in any election. (They are 88 and 83)

They use words and terms like colored, queer, welfare queen, commie etc.

My dad calls the president that boy in the Whitehouse.

My mom laments about how many single mothers are listed in the birth notices. (Which is really upsetting because my wife was adopted)

Dad says that anyone who never served in the military is a coward and doesn't deserve to live in this country. (I didn't)

When my sister was in college at the time of Kent State, and the administrators canceled class for a day or two, Dad wrote a letter demanding a refund on her tuition.

I have never heard them praise anyone who isn't white.

When I was growing up we did take a lot of vacations in our trailer. Seeing this wonderful country led to me becoming very eco-aware. Dad says now that if he had known I would turn out like this, he never would have taken us on these trips.

I work for the federal government, my sister is a retired teacher. My brother is a corporate lawyer. Guess which one he likes best.

[seabeyond]

1. one right. one left. my dad, the right voted obama, first dem. neither are bigots. both good

examples and unconditional love in our house. neither are into belittling people or making them less. my dad especially always sees glass half full and potential adn good in all.

yours was a harsh environment. i hope you have been able to put it in its place and heal

[Mendocino]

24. You would think that getting older would soften

their views at least a little...but no.

But maybe I'm a good liberal because they are such "good" republicans. I still love them but I have no respect for them.

[The Wielding Truth]

66. Are your parents on Social Security and Medicare?

[Mendocino]

69. Yes

They have no problem taking advantage of the safety net. If it saves them $$$ they go for it. If somewhat else has a problem it their own darn fault. Like a lot of right-wingers, hypocrisy reigns supreme.

[w8liftinglady]

42. My dad,Eisenhower Repub..last action was voting for Obama.

He died on dec 14,2008.Voted in the 2008 presidential election.
My mom...liberal Dem.
Go figure.

[Enthusiast]

87. See my post #86.......nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. My mom is very liberal - my dad ended up that way

but for whatever reason liked Nixon...after Watergate, he went way back left. Odd how things work out - I am very liberal, my brother married a very conservative woman and swung way right (hates Obama, they Tivo Palin's show....yikes). Our two daughters are very liberal.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My parents WERE Republicans...not any more.

They voted for Clinton, and Obama. They love Biden. They switched to the Democratic Party a number of years ago. They were really tired of how radicalized the Republicans had become.

When I was growing up, even though they voted R, I never heard any bigoted words from them. No hate, no bias, nothing like that.

I became a Democrat before I left home for college, and there was no fuss about it.

We don't talk politics much, but we always agree when we do.

My brother is a moderate Republican, and he's cool. He has a successful business, and he has a great staff who love him.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. My dad was a Roosevelt Democrat

and my mom an Eisenhower Republican, but they both leaned more left as they grew older. Dad died in '94, Mom in '99, so thankfully neither of them had to suffer through the Bush years.


ed. I want to add, Mendocino, that I'm sorry you had to grow up in a family like that. You can be proud that against such odds you escaped that mindset. One thing my parents always agreed upon, above all else, was that all people deserve respect, and that is how I have tried to live my life. I think it wasn/t always easy for my mom to live up to that ideal (especially since I brought around some real losers in my time), but I have to give her credit for trying. After I reached my teenage years, my parents never interfered in my life, even when they totally disagreed with my choices. I always respected them for that. To me, that's the definition of "liberal."

[Mendocino]

34. Thank You.

I have a very strained relationship with them, I bite my tongue a lot. They are both in poor health and are not likely to be around too much longer. So I want to make their last years civil, however they don't seem to care how I feel.

[Initech]

5. Mom - left. Mom's family - very left. Dad - center. Dad's family - very right.

[EFerrari]

6. One of each. But my dad was a rational Republican

nothing like the kind in power now.

[w8liftinglady]

43. me,too. Mine still had a sense of decency for the poor and the sick

[melman]

7. Both are Democrats

And both have gotten much more liberal as they've gotten older, especially my father.

[burrowowl]

8. Both were Left!

Even to the Left of Eisenhower who would be considered in the America of today as Farrrrrrrr Left. Clinton and Obama would be considered to right of Goldwater, RayGun, etc.
Go figure.

:shrug:

[gateley]

9. Well, we like YOU better! You overcame tough obstacles and odds!

Mine were Kennedy-type liberal -- which wasn't all that 'liberal'. They only time they voted for a Republican (pre-Reagan) was for Governor - he was a patient of my dad's. (He won and the State paid for it, believe me.)

Then my mom became dazzled by Reagan's personality. My dad and I thought she was nuts, and kept telling her so. To be fair, she grew up in a tough situation, didn't have much, and worked hard to get a college education (she was born in 1905 - quite an accomplishment), and the older she got I think those old fears started surfacing even though my dad was a successful and pretty wealthy physician.

But in their hearts, they were both liberals - they cared about injustices to people and were good souls. I do miss them.

I'm sorry you're not as fortunate as I was. :hug:

[Mendocino]

39. I think my dad is a prodigy of Ebenezer Scrooge.

He was complaining about people on unemployment a while back. He said they they should bring back debtors prisons.

[Zoeisright]

47. That sounds like mine! On my BIRTHDAY phone conversation with him today he

started ranting about how unemployment extensions are creating a bunch of lazy slobs, and if we ever have single payer health care, no one will have any incentive to work. Nice, huh?

I was polite and changed the subject. There's just no getting through to some people.

[gateley]

54. I'm sure he isn't the only on from that side that feels that way. And they can

privatize them! :7 :hi:

[ladym55]

10. My parents were slightly to the left of the John Birch Society

My mother died in 2007. I am STILL receiving mail from "Judicial Watch" and Tom Tancredo delivered to my home. When she was alive and in assisted living, my mailbox was polluted with the Rush Limbaugh newsletter and the Washington Times.

It was so sad to me to see this otherwise intelligent woman buy into right-wing propaganda with no question. She was very angry with me for NOT being a right-wing conservative (my sister pretended to be to be the "favorite"), and because my husband and I are both progressive, she thought we were somehow not to be trusted.

In the end, her "mean-spirited" LIE-brul daughter and son-in-law were the ones who showed up when she got sick, made sure she got good care, took care of her finances so she had no worries, and did all we could to make her last few years comfortable and happy. The favored "conservative" daughter spent her time trying to get her hands on her "inheritance" and complained when my mother's money was spent on her own care. phooey.

There is something so very warped in conservative thinking. It is truly toxic and did so much damage in my family over the years.

[FarLeftRage]

11. My father is a Socialist like me...

My dearly departed mother was an FDR Democrat, who voted straight Democratic in every election.

Both parents despised repuKKKES, conservatives and neo-con nazis.

[undeterred]

12. Mine were correct.

They had the biases of their day, but in terms of understanding that big business was going to take over the country and smash the working man, my dad saw it long before Reagan got into office.

[blondeatlast]

WAAAAY Left, I'm happy to say. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

13. Parents

Mom grew up in America, and was a Democrat.
Dad came from Osaka, Japan and followed my mom.
My Grandmother who lives with my parents, came from Kong Jur City, Korea, but has never chosen to vote. My mom told me she says she doesn't trust any politicians.

[Turborama]

14. Father Conservative & Mother Liberal/Green. Possibly why they divorced when I was 14

My father found a less intelligent partner.

It's pretty much the day my relationship with him died, actually.

[taught_me_patience]

15. True blue for both

All grandparents are also democrats.

[valerief]

16. Dead.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Left. But one of them voted for Reagan.

[fishwax]

18. my dad is far right (except on reproductive rights) -- my mom isn't easily defined that way

I would be a bit surprised if my dad has ever voted for a democrat. The one consistent exception to his conservative bent is on the issue of abortion, which is a bit odd, since he tends to think, for example, that all feminists are radical feminists.

I wouldn't characterize my mother as either left or right. She's fairly liberal on some issues, more conservative on others. Unfortunately she sided with McCain in the last election, though.

[catabryna]

19. Let's See Here...

Dad, Democratic Socialist

Me, Democratic Socialist

That was easy. :D

[applegrove]

20. Left.

[northoftheborder]

21. Both parents lifelong Democrats

[prole_for_peace]

22. I don't remember my parents being very political

They would mostly just listen when my brother or I would rant about the Repugs. But ever since W they have been getting more and more vocal and will start discussions with us.

Today my brother was telling me how mom had mentioned how much she dislikes Sarah Failen and wishes she would just shut up and go away.

[madmax]

23. FDR Democrats nt

[ohheckyeah]

25. They were never really right wing

but did vote Republican until after Bush when they both voted for Obama and have taken a major turn to the left. They are pro-choice, pro gay marriage, believe in evolution and global warming so I don't know why they ever voted for Bush.

[doc03]

26. When I first saw All In The Family I thought they based

Archie Bunker on my dad, but neither of my parents would ever vote for a Republican.

[demmiblue]

27. Right decades ago. Now, dem & independent (my assumption, based on voting and disdain for Fox).

Love 'em no matter what. :loveya:

[madinmaryland]

28. Kind of interesting. My Dad is a Roosevelt Democrat who has voted Democrat his entire life.

His sister and their family are George Wallace "democrats.

My Mom, I was a Southern Democrat, but after seeing and hearing Martin Luther King, was a Democrat.

I miss you Mom.

[mmonk]

29. Mine never voted Republican. They were products of Roosevelt's

New Deal era. They never used racist language or anything demeaning talking with or about others. The only thing my dad got mad about was when we purchased a used Mercedes. He never got over what he saw in Germany in World War II.

[AlabamaLibrul]

30. mom's a yellow dog, dad's a puke (in every way). i'm to the left of both of them.

eom

[Karia]

31. Left, mostly

Dad was a lifelong Democrat & Mom was well to the left of Dad when I was young. Both were active in the local Democratic party.

Mom's 2nd husband is a Reagan-worshiping, Beck-adoring, Republican. My impression is that they initially agreed to disagree about politics, but RW talk radio and/or Fox are always blaring and Mom has been leaning alarmingly far to the right for the past decade or so. The sibs & I discuss this frequently. Has she been brainwashed by RW media? Or is she in the early stages of dementia? In terms of her politics, she is not the mother who raised us and we find it alarming. In all other respects, she's still very much the Mom we've always known and loved.

Their RW devotion strikes me as particularly weird since the reason they are enjoying a comfortable retirement is because they both belonged to unions!

[AndyTiedye]

32. Liberal Republicans

The were Republican, but supported Planned Parenthood and opposed the Vietnam War
and would be considered somewhat progressive on today's skewed political landscape.

My mom didn't vote for Reagan (my dad was dead by then but probably wouldn't have either)
and cast her last 2 Presidential votes for Clinton.

[kas125]

33. My mom died six years ago. She worshipped FDR and

would get very angry if anyone ever said a bad word about him, but she didn't vote. My dad was always a Democrat, but since I moved in to take care of him after she died, he's become much more like me. He quit his membership in the American Legion and joined Veterans for Peace. He even goes with me to protests if he's feeling well enough, and he's become everyone in our group's grandpa, lol.

[vikegirl]

35. Dad--far right. Mom--centrist, leaning left.

I really don't understand my father. He listens to Pigboy, thinks Al Gore is the ultimate fraud, subscribes to stereotypes, and has proudly boasted to have NEVER voted for a D (and I also saw that he had The Quitter's reality show DVRed in his queue :thumbsdown:). Yet, he adopted me....and I am of Korean-American heritage. He can't understand why I am such a liberal, and I can't understand why someone who's so judging and judgmental, could have adopted an Asian-American! (BUT....I love him to death, and although he's against any type of "welfare" or "entitlement," has vigorously supported me (financially and emotionally) since I was laid off and have been unemployed for nearly two years.)

My mother...I don't really know, she is very elusive about her politics. She'll sit on the sidelines whilst my father and I argue about Obama. I suspect, however, she's more left-leaning than right. My father often complains that she cancels his vote. To which mine is the deciding factor in this family. :-)

[Kaleva]

36. I don't know. I never asked and they never told me.

[frazzled]

My mother (aged 85) told me last week

that she and my father (aged 94) had recently subscribed to Mother Jones magazine. I started laughing. "That's pretty radical, Mom," I told her. "Well I agree with them!" she shouted.

My parents were strict Adlai Stevens Democrats, and we grew up on the stuff. Somewhere in the 80s they went Reagan Democrat altogether and became what we kids thought was thoroughly conservative. The presidency of George H.W. Bush brought them back to their senses and they recommitted themselves to a sensible, moderate Democratic agenda. George W. Bush drove them into radical territory. I remember my father telling me that he could remember every president as far back as Coolidge, and that this was the worst and most stupid president he had seen in his (long) lifetime. Now they read Mother Jones. Go figure! I love my Mom and Dad.

[liberalmuse]

37. My mom was liberal, got crazy religious, went right, and now is left again.

She loves President Obama, even though she voted for Bush twice. My sister and I had been telling her the truth for years, and one day, when the 'torture' scandal came out, she was so appalled that she questioned everything. Religion is almost as bad as meth for some people.

My dad died many years ago, but I do remember his Nixon 'Tricky Dick' watch, LOL.

[immoderate]

38. My family is all Democrats, but...

My parents were both in WWII, and I think they liked Ike. We never talked about it. (I was 7.) And my mother "supported the troops" in Vietnam, never forgave me for opposing the war, became a bit of a flag nut. We got along mostly, but there was always an undercurrent, she sure could carry a grudge. :)

--imm

[Aristus]

40. My mother is an unreconstructed, proud, unashamed Kennedy liberal.

My dad kind of flip-flopped with the prevailing political climate, but at heart, I think, he was a left-leaning centrist.

He turned hard-right at the time of the Iraq invasion, and we had more than a few arguments over that. He was a retired Army officer, and I guess he just wanted to stand by his branch of service.

As time wore on, and the Iraq invasion and occupation ground on and on, he realized he was wrong to support the war. He grew to loathe Bush, whom he had never really liked very much. And he pulled back from the far-right at last.

His final months were spent excitedly waiting for Barack Obama to shove "that fucking idiot out of the White House."

He cast his last vote ever for President Obama.

That makes me happy...

[Lucky Luciano]

41. Dad was left....estranged mother is radical left.

Mother called my fiancee a bitch several times because my fiancee did not like to spend time with my mother who is socially awkward. When my mother, instead of congratulating me on getting married, told me I should not marry "that bitch" I broke off all contact...she even told me that she hoped i would lose my job, etc....she can be childishly as nasty as can be...I cannot tolerate anyone talking to my fiancee like that, so I banned my mother.

[TygrBright]

44. They were pretty much center-left when I was a child.

By today's standards that makes them ultra-leftwing, wild-eyed socialist radical maniacs, I guess.

Woulda bemused the heck out of my stepfather. My Mom revels in it, I think. Fun to be a wild-eyed radical maniac when yer as old as she is.

philosophically,
Bright

[laundry_queen]

45. My dad leans right.

He's one of those 'fiscal conservatives' who just hates paying taxes and doesn't want any of his money going to the government. I love asking him if he likes the paved road he takes to work (used to be gravel and mud and one time he was stuck for hours on it with the mud), he just rolls his eyes. He's socially liberal but just selfish when it comes to money. He does enjoy our universal health care though but still wants a 'private option'.
I have no idea about my mom. When she's with me, she talks like a leftie, and when she's with my dad, she changes. She's like a dlc'er. lol. My brother is like my dad.

The one thing we all have in common though is our dislike of the religious right. We can talk American politics with much agreement, but Canadian politics-not so much.

[Zoeisright]

46. Both extreme right, unfortunately.

Listen to those asshole Beck and O'Lielly constantly. In order to be around them at all, I had to insist NO POLITICS EVER. My dad will still sneak in disgusting comments, which make me fume for days.

[Mendocino]

61. If I watched Beck and Billo today,

and talked to dad tomorrow,
He would spout talking points from those idiots and claim them as his own.

I'm really glad he's too old and unwilling to use the internet, and hasn't discovered crap like Prison Planet or Michael Savage.

[Fuzz]

48. Ordained Assemblies of God minister, was VERY far right. Now retired and has become

disillusioned with the right and moved more to the center, even a bit left on some issues. Registered Independent.

Hell, with a son like me and me being left since I became aware of the bullshit being preached to me when I was a young teen, he's had to come around a bit. ;)

Edit: His father was a brown shirt in Stuttgart during WWII, very strict, and a real asshole from what I remember. He died when I was 17. Then he came to this country in 59 and found Jesus. So we're talking really right wing here.

[pinboy3niner]

49. Mine were Catholic, blue collar dems

Our family was devastated by the assassination of JFK. Even though they weren't terribly political.

My folks had their prejudices, and their differences with dems on some issues, but they remained staunchly committed to the party when it counted.

My mom was a housewife, my dad the foreman of a small plant that made printing machines. He had to take odd jobs printing signs in our garage to eke out. I never tasted real butter, or steak, until I turned 18 and was in the Army.

One of my many fond memories of my dad is one example of how he treated the plant workers. He took a special interest in one worker who was an immigrant from Indonesia. Dad invited this man and his family to our home for dinner many times. The worker had been a doctor in Indonesia, but as an immigrant was reduced to working on the line in a manufacturing plant.

My dad died young, never living to see the anti-immigrant attacks of today. But, based on his history, I have no doubt his approach to today's issues would be a compassionate, democratic, humanistic one...

[Still Sensible]

50. Kennedy Democrats!

Athough I think my dad was also an Eisenhower republican, but went for Kennedy in '60...liked Jack better than Nixon. He wasn't very political, but mom was.

[Lugnut]

51. Both left.

Dad was a union miner. His brother was an organizer for the CIO. Mother's entire family loved FDR and supported Democrats across the board. I was born a Democrat.

[Mojeoux]

52. Mom voted Rep. untill she saw the cops beating people in Chicago 1968.

And that was a Democratic convention. Any way, she never voted Repub again.
My Dad died when I was a baby, but he was a comic and an EmmCee for Democratic politicians.

[AmandaMae]

53. they were neither, just apathetic. I convinced them both to vote Democratic last year, though.

[Mariana]

55. Depressingly right.

My dad's a Faux/Limpballs addict, swallows all the BS and then makes up more of his own.

My mom did't bother much until Obama won the nomination. Now she's gone right on account of her racism. If the Repukes had put up a black man, she'd have gone left.

[barbiegeek]

91. That is why Colin Powell never ran

[pamela]

56. Very moderate. Conservative is some ways Progressive in other ways

They voted for Goldwater, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Gore, Kerry and Obama

They use to be pretty conservative but not in an ugly, wingnutty way. They're not terribly political but they are smart and stay reasonably well-informed. They are fairly religious but again, not in the ugly wing-nut way-more along the line of Christ's true teachings. I was afraid that they would get wingnutty as they got older, since they spend a lot of time at their church but Bush really pushed them into a more Progressive stance. They both thought he was an absolute idiot and he kind of soured them on the whole Republican party.

I give my Dad a lot of Jim Wallis books and other books like that to counteract the influence of some of their right-wing church friends. Politically, they listen to me more than anyone else which drives my Republican sisters crazy. They think I have some kind of weird influence on them.

I love my folks. With their backgrounds (religious southerners with very racist parents) it's amazing to me that they haven't succumbed to all the far right rhetoric. I think they would have if they weren't so naturally intelligent and able to see through the bullshit. Plus, they are both just really nice people so the haters (Limbaugh, Palin, Fox news) just make them ill.

[vercetti2021]

57. Parents are

Divorced but i'll give my two cents. My mom is liberal very liberal i grew up living with my mom so kinda why i became a liberal plus my step dad is liberal as well. My dad is a big reason why i would never be conservative, he is a far righty calls the president a N all the time around me because he knows i get pissed, bring up a watermelon or chicken he will say get some to Obama! Or if he sees a flag he will mention the N in the white house is trying to take our freedom! All my family is democratic and my dads side is far right loons. Reason why i never pick up the phone when he calls me, i refuse to be around him and his family.

[patrice]

73. I have a couple of military brothers . . . . It is good to respect limitations on some relationships

trying to "do right" just doesn't work sometimes, so it's better to just leave things kind of simple.

[Mopar151]

58. Ended up solidly LEFT

Always were socially progressive. Nixon took care of the rest.

(I watched the Iran-Contra hearings with my Dad - a Purple Heart/Bronze star, disabled vet. Despise is not a strong enough word for what he thought of Ollie North.)

[Drunken Irishman]

59. Mom comes from a politically liberal family and Dad was from an apolitical family.

So he didn't have any views when they married.

That quickly changed and he became more and more liberal (and Democratic) with the influence of my mom, her sisters and my grandparents.

My mom grew up in a family thats Democratic roots went all the way back to Roosevelt - around the time the family arrived from Ireland. My grandma's aunt would write Roosevelt every week giving him tips and support during the Great Depression.

But they were Irish and back then, most Irish were Democrats.

Grandpa served in World War II during the Normandy Invasion and nearly became a career military man, but did not want to move the family around.

He voted Democratic in every election but one - 1952. He had not been home from the war long and liked the fact Eisenhower was linked to the military. I believe this was his first presidential election and he voted Republican. Four years later, oddly, he switched and voted Democrat and that remained in every election until 2004 (he died in 2002).

Grandma was probably more liberal than Grandpa. She voted Democratic up until her death (2003). Mom more liberal than her parents.

My dad was a Vietnam veteran and very pro-military. But that didn't change his perception of the Democratic Party. He liked Clinton, voted Gore and Kerry and then voted Obama.

That was the last presidential candidate he voted for, as he died in November at the age of 57.

So I've got strong Democratic blood in me.

[Marr]

60. Dad was a Democrat, mom was mostly apolitical.

My dad was a union man all his life, and often told me about all the Rush Limbaugh fans he worked with. Never made much sense to either of us.

[NYC Liberal]

62. Whole family is left except for 2, both of whom aren't

really THAT conservative but play it up sometimes just to get a rise out of people. Like my uncle one time going on about how Fox News is too liberal for him.

[Catherina]

63. Father Social Democrat. Mother practically a Communist. n/t

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

64. mostly left-wing, but somewhat "traditional"

My parents are both hardcore democrats, my father hates republicans except for Nixon (who he merely dislikes) and hates the south. Both my parents were active in the civil rights movement and later financial contributors to the Sierra Club. Their tolerance does not however extend to freedom of religion or alternative lifestyles. They also openly disapprove that neither me or my brother have married and say that we both need to "make honest women" of our longtime partners.

I would love to share the things my dad says about the tea party but most of it is so offensive I would be tombstoned for it.

[patrice]

65. Rural families out of Arkansas & Oklahoma, Labor Populist Democrats, Left of Center on SocialJustice

, Center on Economic Justice issues. Their standings on Social Justice were the result of Social Justice teachings which they received from a fire-and-brimstone Populist preaching priest in a SMALL-town Catholic parish. I was named after that priest. My Dad was a 100% Union man, helped to start the first Boilermakers' Union in the Midwest. I got most of my politics from him at the dinner table. He was waaaay ahead of his time in re corporations and their amoral motives and he was a passionate FDR Democrat until he passed-on.

[Cali_Democrat]

67. Left

Thankfully.

Not a single conservative in my family.

[silver10]

68. Both parents were and are very democratic.

I was against communism, loved the freedom of America and was a republican. I was afraid that communism would steal our freedom. My parents were always kind, told me I had to vote how I felt and what was best for me - however, I was always concerned with the environment and people less fortunate - poor people. My parents were more fiscal liberal than social liberal, but they weren't racists or bigots.

I went through the army for 7 years and believe it or not, became very apolitical. I was in MI, so people were not extremely right-wing thinking like maybe other branches like the infantry. I didn't vote for Gore or Bush because I was ambivalent - it was said in the media that Gore would not allow overseas military members' votes be counted in the election during the whole "hanging chad affair." What really, really turned me left was seeing Bush in action and his administration. I cannot believe the greed and the lies that took place during his terms, it is really mind boggling. Now maybe I am even more liberal than my parents.

And the really sad part is had I known then what I know now and how our country turned out to be, I probably would never had served my country, especially after the 8 years of bush and his lies, and about how far crazy right so many people are - probably the dearth of a good educational foundation. And my sister and brother are also dems.

[proud patriot]

70. Both Left

[patrice]

71. Wow! You must be really be something, to come through that adversity so well!

:hi:

[Maru Kitteh]

72. My parents were solid republicans - now Mom says she has about as much use for one as a

three-legged racehorse.

She's a 4-alarm Democrat now. :-)

[begin_within]

74. Mom Democrat, Dad Independent... however on social issues, conservative because

as members of the so-called "Greatest Generation" they were socially conservative on some issues - homosexuality was one. As a member of the Catholic church my Mom has always been against abortion. My Mom would trend left, my Dad variable due to whatever candidates were running.

[Hannah Bell]

75. roosevelt dems

[distantearlywarning]

76. Libertarian in the truest sense of the word.

As opposed to this wild Tea Party irrational religiously-tinged crap that attracts the true nutjobs these days. Their primary desires are for other people to a) mind their own business, and b) take responsibility for their own behaviors.

So my parents have been voting Democratic in recent years because the religious right scares them, they couldn't care less about whether gays get married, they don't care about what color their neighbor's skin is or where they pray as long as the neighbor isn't bothering them, and they don't want prayer in schools or the ten commandments on courthouse walls. And they think the Republicans are just as wasteful if not more wasteful from a fiscal sense than the Democrats, but at least the Democrats don't come around with a flashlight peering into your bedroom to see what you're doing. Also, my dad voted for Obama I think mostly because Obama seemed like the most intellectual candidate of the bunch, and he has no tolerance whatsoever for teh irrationality and teh dumb. His head would probably explode if Sarah Palin ever became president, because she's both dumb AND irrationally religious. He'd probably have to move to Canada for the duration or something.

[csziggy]

77. As far as I know my parents have always been registered as Democrats

But they are Dixiecrats at heart. They voted for George Wallace - TWICE! And for Ronald Reagan, and both Bushes. I'm not sure about last time with Mom. At one point she said she was going to vote for Obama because she was so pissed at McCain for choosing Sarah Palin, plus she thought McCain was too stupid to be president, given his standing in his graduating class at the Naval Academy. But I have no idea who she really voted for when she filled out her ballot. I know Dad would never vote for a black man and even if he has contempt for McCain's stupidity, he would still vote for another Navy guy.

What is weird is that although they vote so conservative, in day to day life, they are generous, fair to everyone and have worked with all the members of their little town to preserve local history. They helped get some significant landmarks in the formerly all black side of town get on the National Register and donated materials to the museum that was started in one of the buildings. They worked with one of the historians to help him write a history of the blacks in that county.

But they are slaves to the right wing media in that area and still support right wing candidates for office. It's embarrassing.

[stevenleser]

78. Both Democrats since becoming citizens.

Mother took me marching with her for the ERA when I was 4-ish. (yes I realize I am dating myself)

[Hamlette]

79. Mom is very left, Dad was GOP but came to hate Reagan

over Reagan admin's talk about "limited nuclear war". Dad was military and he thought talk like that was reckless and suicidal. (He worked on nukes.) He became VERY left wing. Which is why I defend/like Sullivan and John Cole. Both were republicans and no longer are.

[NuclearDem]

80. Both parents are on the right.

Dad much more so (Freeper, listens to Rushbo, watches Fox).

[cali]

81. Both Dems

both very active in dem politics.

[Raine]

82. My parents were moderate repubs but ended up as very liberal Democrats

They had had enough by the time Raygun took over the repub party ... that was the end for them. My whole family became Democrats and never voted repub again. :-)

[pampango]

83. Always remember my dad didn't want Blacks to move into our neighborhood, because it would hurt

property values not because (allegedly) he was a racist. In his own way I think he really meant that, even though it seems kind of "tea party" today.

He always voted repub and my mother always voted Democratic, but I don't remember politics being a "big deal" in our family.

[NotThisTime]

84. Extreme right wing Evangelical... need I say more?

[JustAnotherGen]

85. Left

Very far left. Both of them.

[Enthusiast]

86. Interesting thread, Mendocino.

Both my parents are now gone. They voted straight Democratic ticket, always. They would be considered racists today. But they weren't hateful about it. They told me many times that Asians were sneaky, Jews were greedy and Blacks were....well they didn't have any certain opinion on blacks especially.

My mother was still politically active during the 2008 election. When I said I supported Obama rather than Hillary she said, "But aren't these blacks the ones that are causing all this trouble?" I prevailed, even though we had some heated Obama vs Clinton arguments. She cast the last vote of her life for Barack Obama. I never thought I see the day that she voted for a black man. I still don't believe she would have voted for a Jew, however.

[hobbit709]

88. My mother is a hard core socialist, my stepdad voted Democrat.

[diddlysquat]

89. My parents were both avid right.

But only because of money, I believe. I never heard a single derogatory word about anyone from their lips. They never said a word about abortion.

[lonestarnot]

90. both left.

[MadBadger]

92. Dad's Socially liberal, Fiscally Moderate, and a little to the left of Lieberman on foreign policy

So not sure what that makes him. My mom is Center Left

[LiberalEsto]

93. Socialists

but very quiet about it, because they were immigrants.

[LeftishBrit]

94. Both very left

Dad died some years ago; Mum is still voting against the Tories!

They usually voted Labour, though once or twice they voted Liberal/LibDem for tactical reasons, and Mum voted Green in 2001 and 2005 as a protest against Blair, whom she turned against even before Iraq.

[otohara]

95. Liberal - Very Liberal

[ScreamingMeemie]

96. Center of center. About as centered as one can be.

My dad will vote Republican, but only on silly things like university regents, to "keep things even". :)

[IDemo]

97. Orange County republicans

My entire extended family consists of evangelical republicans. I'm it on this side of the aisle. :hi:

[fascisthunter]

98. Moderate to Liberal

Ukrainian father and german mother. Both have seen what right wing authoritarianism does to folks. Both claim republicans act just like the nazis did before they had power.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

99. Moderate left. As in, ACTUAL moderate left.

Not the flaming rightos some Americans use "moderate left" as an euphemism for.

[RockaFowler]

100. Both Democrats

I was brought up in a Democratic Household - even when they divorced. Even after my dad became rich later in life, he is still a Democrat. My mom lives in Repuke Heaven in the Florida Panhandle. She said that she and my step-dad are the only Dems in the area. Scary people up there. The people in the panhandle - not my parents :)