I heard a while ago that people tend to belong to the same political party as their parents. It makes sense to me.
My mother is and has always been a democratic, my father is and always has been a republician, I am an Independent I guess a blending of the two.
2007-06-20 04:50:14 · 16 answers · asked by gerafalop 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
My parents were old school dems. I am a Republican.
2007-06-20 04:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by melanie 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
No. One parent is a Goldwater Republican and the other a Kennedy Democrat, so I became an American Independent.
2007-06-20 11:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by BOOM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I frighten(ed) my parents. My father was a life-long liberal of the "union" variety and always voted for the candidate who promised to bring home the most bacon. My mother was a bit more thoughtful, a bit more conservative, but only a bit.
I, on the other hand usually stand somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun, but I despise supremacists and racists and chauvinists.
2007-06-20 07:46:48 · answer #3 · answered by Ironhand 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Most people I know do follow their parents party.
I broke from mine, when I learned that the party my parents held to was vastly different than it had been . . .
My mother still holds to hers, even though her political views are not the same as the party's. She still believes that dem is for the common man, and repub is only for the rich.
She tends to vote her views rather than her party, which is just about all one could ask, I guess.
2007-06-20 04:58:43 · answer #4 · answered by Moneta_Lucina 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
properly i think of you have the perfect to opt for which celebration to vote for in spite of what your mum and dad celebration is. I chosen to develop into and vote democrat no longer because of the fact my mum and dad are yet because of the fact the Democratic celebration progressed from Anti-Federalist factions that damaging the commercial rules of Alexander Hamilton interior the early 1790s. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison prepared those factions into the Democratic-Republican celebration to choose the states' rights and strict adherence to the form. In different words i like the history in the back of the celebration and what they stood for, properly to a number of what they stood for yet no longer all =)
2016-10-18 03:42:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I first registered to vote in 1985 I registered as a Democrat. Then about 1990 I got smart, realized my parents were smarter than I gave them credit for, and changed my party affiliation to Republican. I still am today.
2007-06-20 05:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by Princess of the Realm 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes and no. my situation was like yours. we do tend to be influenced by our parents though,it is why i hold views that really don't adhere to one party. i used to have some good "debates" with my dad. he worked for the government and too many times i had the chance to say"i told you so" over some of the things he was subjected to.
2007-06-20 05:06:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The party that my parents belonged to is no longer the same. I vote issues, not party.
2007-06-20 04:55:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Dad's a Democrat, mom's an Independent and I'm a Republican.
2007-06-20 04:54:14 · answer #9 · answered by Brian 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
My parents are Democrats, I'm a Libertarian.
2007-06-20 05:06:17 · answer #10 · answered by cynical 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My parents were Democrats (the original kind) I am Republican...we actually agreed on most issues, so in a way I suppose so.
2007-06-20 04:55:56 · answer #11 · answered by Erinyes 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋