Man...you yankees have some difficult families
God bless you for sticking it out for conservatism
down here at least amongst whites it’s rare to find lefty family members
out of my extended family of say..200 folks all the way to 3rd cousins and whatnot..of which none are blue collar anymore..all educated class
two libs...maybe 3 actually...one in San Francisco (not out of the closet gay) and another in academia (female..not totally lib) and another hybridizing the world without the benefit of marriage and also in academia (female obviously)
I actually have a lesbian very old aunt who is very conservative and very quiet about her and her old partner of 50 years...they are near 80..they detest Obama and entitlement culture..and think gay marriage is loony
but most Yankees I know come from lib families and they have struck out on their own
now folks will say “now wardaddy, all southerners used to be Democrats”
true ..as were most yankees too..but those southerners were still EXTREMELY socially conservative but drank New Deal elixir ..like most of the country
“but those southerners were still EXTREMELY socially conservative but drank New Deal elixir ..like most of the country”
Get yourself a copy of Thomas Fleming’s “The New Dealer’s War”.
You’ll find that conservative southern Democrats joined with Republicans to form ‘the conservative coalition’ and they ruled Congress from about 1937 to 1965. It was this group that brought FDR’s socialistic schemes to a halt.