What party are/were your parents?

[3catwoman3]

58. My dad was a Republican...

...all his life. He made it 90 years of age in 2011. Quiet about his politics (as well as everything else in his life) so I don't really know why - he didn't talk about much of anything except sports. He grew up in the south side of Chicago. His dad was a stockbroker who lost everything in the crash of '29, when my dad would have been 8.

My mom, one year younger than my dad, was a Republican for a long time. She grew up in a small town in Minnesota, where her dad was one of the town dentists. Sometimes patients would pay my grandfather in chickens or bags of flour. I'm told my grandmother cried when FDR was elected, and not tears of joy.

I remember my folks taking me to the airport in Rochester, NY, when I was 8, to see Richard Nixon. My mom was fascinated and horrified by Watergate. I know she voted for President Obama both times, and also voted for Bill Clinton. She will be 94 in April, and will vote the Democratic ticket.

She says she and my dad never told each other who they voted for.