So Elizabeth Warren was a Republican up until 1995.

[merrily]

235. Very interesting. If I ever knew his running mate's name, I'd forgotten.

Good to know. Eisenhower, on the other hand, was a racist, according to the autobiography of Earl Warren.

People say things like, "It was the times." I do cut people some slack because "everyone else did it" and certain things were supposedly taken for granted. On the other hand, some people did know better, all the way back to the 17th Century, even to the point of practicing their own brand of disobeying what they considered unjust laws.

I posted recently that I'd watched On Demand an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? (geneaology of celebrities) featuring Zooey Deschanel. Thought it would be mindless viewing.. Was I wrong! Turned out her ancestors were anti-war, anti-slavery Quakers. And, on their farm in Pennsy was a stop for the Underground Railroad.

A slave owner tracked a runaway slave or two he "owned" to the farm. When he came to get them under the Fugitive Slave Act, a battle occurred that was an important event leading to the Civil War.. The Quakers did not participate in the fighting, though they did try to protect the runaways. (Footnote: a friend of the slave owner was very outraged at that battle and its casualties. He was John Wilkes Booth.)

Interesting episode!