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In reply to the discussion: Daughter discovers her fiance is conservative [View all]Hekate
(90,564 posts)They had both grown up in a small coastal California city where there was diversity and her being Jewish never came up. You know: meh.
Then their jobs took them to Bakersfield, which is inland and has oil, cows, and smog. And very conservative churchy Republicans.
After several years there, she discovered what it was like to be told she was going to fry in Hell and he discovered that Republicans could be batshit crazy. When Obama was elected, her whole workplace broke out the sackcloth and ashes and she and the one Muslim woman working there passed each other in the hallway and secretively indicated they were doing the happy dance inside. At some point along the way at a family gathering, he told us he was no longer a Republican.
Neither one of them is an activist in any way. They just had some experiences and in a sense grew up.