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Originally posted by widebody911
A lot of people think they're a conservative because they're republican. Who knows how they become republican in the first place, but I've known several who are because their dad/priest/authority figure told them to.
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I'm not a Republican, but I always thought the same thing about Democrats. Conservative middle American union workers vote Democratic as if it were a birthright. Same story in the South. Robert Byrd was a KKK member and just couldn't see himself in Lincoln's party. Explain the voting patterns of the devout Catholic block in New England. Ted Kennedy? WTF?
I'm not suggesting that Republicans are great independent thinkers, they get where they are just like the Democrats.