Been ever since I was able to think for myself, fo'sho. Thankfully both my Puerto Rican parents are so liberal they bleed rainbows and fabulous unicorns.
Hahaha, sounds like my family. Except the Puerto Rican part. One time I went to visit my mom and she went to Wal-Mart and I was like "MOM! WAL-MART?!?" and she made me swear not to tell the rest of the family.
Isn't it wonderful to come from good liberal folk?
Isn't it wonderful to come from good liberal folk?
Srsly. Conservatives/Repubs/Libertarians, I would like to study them. Living zealot-religious, and ~*~Straight-red blooded Amuricans~*~ would be the death of me.
Generalization, possibly. But I don't think I'd say those were completely off-base. Lol.
Srsly. Conservatives/Repubs/Libertarians, I would like to study them. Living zealot-religious, and ~*~Straight-red blooded Amuricans~*~ would be the death of me.
It's not fun, no. I grew up on Leviticus & Rush Limbaugh in Texas with a bible-thumping ultra-conservative family. I'm one of the 2, possibly 3 Leftie black sheep, and even then, I'm the most liberal by far and the only non-Christian. It...gets interesting. ^^;;
Thankfully, I'm in Arizona now. The state isn't much more liberal than TX, but at least I'm free to be my flaming liberal self without my relatives turning their nose up at me. Also, I've had my revenge against my Dad ever since he moved to Oregon. Now he knows how I've felt all these years and what I mean when I talk about having the Red State Blues. *cackles*
We would have gone blue last time, actually, if it hadn't been for the Phoenix metro area and all the communities of relocated republicans. Pissing off the Hispanic community will definitely help move the state toward blue.
The family emails that circulate are pretty awesome. Around inauguration time we were all bitching about Rick Warren and my cousin's fiancé made the mistake of saying he didn't think Warren was such a bad guy, lol. Bad move. He got several walls of text in reply. He recanted, and my aunt cheerfully replied with, "WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!"
I don't know how you all do it. I mean, okay, you do it because that's how you were raised, but man. I would go nuts.
My ex was from the deepest and scariest part of the deep south and he had uncles in the fucking Klan. He and his family just never discussed politics. Which I guess is how you have to go to save your sanity, but if my family didn't discuss politics we'd pretty much have nothing to talk about, lol.
This is how it goes, pretty much. When my independent views were developing from the age of about 14/15 I learned to stick to debate clubs and discussion groups to get my POV out because my parents usually just told me to shut up. My brother is just as liberal as I am, though, so once started caring about politics it wasn't so bad.
Not only am a Hisapnic Democrat, I am a Cuban Democrat, which seem to be the most rare of the Hispanic Democrats. I am the the only one who is really, really liberal in my family, too. My sister is kind of liberal, but I am the most outspoken about it.
My BFF is a Cuban Democrat from Miami, so I know what you're saying here. Though, I believe 2008 was the first year there was a really organized group of Cuban Democrats in Dade County, IIRC. I think that Cubans are actually trending more liberal, at least, far more liberal than they have been for decades.
Meanwhile, to my Hispanic friends: WELCOME TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! ILU!!
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Srsly. Conservatives/Repubs/Libertarians, I would like to study them. Living zealot-religious, and ~*~Straight-red blooded Amuricans~*~ would be the death of me.
Generalization, possibly. But I don't think I'd say those were completely off-base. Lol.
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It's not fun, no. I grew up on Leviticus & Rush Limbaugh in Texas with a bible-thumping ultra-conservative family. I'm one of the 2, possibly 3 Leftie black sheep, and even then, I'm the most liberal by far and the only non-Christian. It...gets interesting. ^^;;
Thankfully, I'm in Arizona now. The state isn't much more liberal than TX, but at least I'm free to be my flaming liberal self without my relatives turning their nose up at me. Also, I've had my revenge against my Dad ever since he moved to Oregon. Now he knows how I've felt all these years and what I mean when I talk about having the Red State Blues. *cackles*
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The family emails that circulate are pretty awesome. Around inauguration time we were all bitching about Rick Warren and my cousin's fiancé made the mistake of saying he didn't think Warren was such a bad guy, lol. Bad move. He got several walls of text in reply. He recanted, and my aunt cheerfully replied with, "WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!"
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My ex was from the deepest and scariest part of the deep south and he had uncles in the fucking Klan. He and his family just never discussed politics. Which I guess is how you have to go to save your sanity, but if my family didn't discuss politics we'd pretty much have nothing to talk about, lol.
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This is how it goes, pretty much. When my independent views were developing from the age of about 14/15 I learned to stick to debate clubs and discussion groups to get my POV out because my parents usually just told me to shut up. My brother is just as liberal as I am, though, so once started caring about politics it wasn't so bad.
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