Political x-section of your family

[Superfly]

How does your family measure on the political spectrum. Let's say you consider all family members to second cousins...

I am the only Dem, with my wife being on the fence (liberal-libertarian).

[GOPisEvil]

1. The only family I see on a consistent basis are my parents.

Dad is ex-military, but still a Democrat (although he strays from time to time on certain issues). Mom is a fiery liberal, reads everything, and hates Republicans! :D

[theivoryqueen]

2. I finally converted my family - it's my friends who are resisting

[GOPisEvil]

3. You need new friends!

:-)

[histohoney]

4. I like the mix

Dads a Dem, Moms a Rep, two of us kids are Dems, two kids came out Reps.
Now good-bye friends, for I and my family are off to a VERY interesting Thanksgiving meal with this group. We will debate, argue, a few might scream but in the end we will still love each other and give out the hugs at the end of the day.

I LOVE the mix, it's so much fun!:9

[eyesroll]

5. Many in my family are actually registered Republicans

My parents registered as such in something like 1972, to vote for a family friend in the primary. My dad is a Democrat through-and-through; my mom is apolitical. (She votes, but doesn't discuss it.)

My west-coast relatives are very liberal, but my uncle ran as a Republican for a seat on the San Fernando Valley City council. (Since the secession vote failed, his election was moot. He lost anyway.) He figured that was the only way he could win in his district; he has since switched his registration back.

My east-coast relatives are Democrats.

My household is entirely Democratic; card-carrying and everything. (Of course, my household is just Whitacre D_WI and me.)

[Sean Reynolds]

6. Almost 100% liberal, if it weren't for my fundy aunt....

Sadly she was VERY liberal too until she found 'god' and now has a faux style liberalism when she's in town (she lives in TEXAS). She's nice, but way too conservative and her moral bone is solid as a rock, forgetting that she was a pretty wild kid.

She says she's a-political, but we know she voted Bush in 2000 and her husband is an NRA loving gun freak.

But all the family here in Utah are MAJOR liberals. Both my cousins and I are socialists, my mother is pretty liberal, my aunt is liberal until it comes to the Middle East (which we fight a lot on). My late grandmother was an FDR liberal, so was my grandpa.

[Some Moran]

15. You must live in Salt Lake City.

:)

Lots of solid progressives there. The rest of the state though...*shudders*

[youngred]

7. Mom's side vs. Dad's side

Mom's - 100% Liberal
Dad's - 75% uber-conservatives (my grandmother was an election supervisor when my dad was in college and would read his absentee ballots and yell at him for voting for democrats). Only two moderates on that side. Dad is a good liberal dem though so :-)

[cmf]

8. Registering Republican would get you disowned in my family.

They're Black southerners. There is no question about who you vote for.

[Some Moran]

16. Until Kennedy though...

Wasn't it the opposite?

[Bluzmann57]

9. Parents are both Dems

mother in law is "sort of" republican, but may change(her words, not mine), signifigant other is a weak Dem, sister was registered Repub, only to help oust a former representative around here, now registered independent, daughter takes after her ol' man, Democrat all the way, son is non-political, all other known relatives are either people I don't associate with or non political. Oh yeah, sisters boyfriend is unsure. Voted for bush last time, I think we may have him converted.

[trotsky]

10. Only a couple of conservatives in my family, and they married in.

Good strong Minnesota farmer stock keeps us firmly in the Democratic column.

[Blue-Jay]

11. Only my brother and his wife are Conservitards

The rest of us know what's what. I've already prepared my notes for the annual political smackdown of my brother that's otherwise known as "Thanksgiving". I look forward to it every year.

Newest on this year's agenda is from (I think) The Washington Post. Apparently, on average, the gub'ment rakes in $17,000 per household, yet is spending $20,000 per household. I'll bring a calculator in case the math is beyond his feeble understanding.

Then again, he'll likely counter with Clinton/blowjob tales of yore. You can't fight that kind of logic. (Although maybe I'll bring up the Neil Bush asian sexual escapades.)

I can't wait. :D

[Zero Gravitas]

12. My family

Dad is a "hands off my money" pro-business Republican, but is socially moderate & is turned off by the haters and the fundies. He voted for Bush in 2000 but will not be repeating that mistake (I think).

Mom, Bro & me are all liberals.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

13. Two Republican Parents

Five Democratic Children (Four Democrats and One Green, but we're all liberals), in addition to our spouses and the growing assembly of nieces and nephews). Looks like the conservative gene died out with Mom and Dad.

[Nikia]

14. Both

My mother's family is pretty solidly Democrat. She has gotten more conservative with her rising status, but she will always vote for pro choice candidates and supports the Democratic party nationally for that reason. My father's family is mainly Republican with some liberal and Democratic leanings. My father's family doesn't talk about politics too much, where as my mother's family talks about it all the time. Both my grandmother's were on their party's respective county central committee.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

17. When I talked to my Dad on the phone after he moved to Vermont

he kept mentioning 'we've got gay marriage here'... as if I was supposed to be amused by his homophobia and intolerance... :puke:

[THUNDER HANDS]

18. about half and half

My mom's side, with the exception of my mother, are all Republican. But that had to do more out of necessity than anything else. For years, if you lived on Long Island and worked for the county government, you HAD to be a Republican. If you were a Democrat, you didn't have a job working for the county.

My dad's side, which comes from Brooklyn, was all Dems. In fact, my great grandparents on my dad's side first met at a Communist Party rally at MSG in the 1920's.

[durutti]

19. All moderate Democrats.

Both of my parents are Democrats. I'd say they're liberal on economic issues, moderate on social issues.

My only living grandfather (a former Democratic state legislator) is moderate both economically and socially.

My only living grandmother is a Jehovah's Witness, so she doesn't involve herself in politics.

I like to think that my cats are radical leftists.