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The exact same thing happened to me! I was living in West Berlin in 1968, and the dicotomy between the European and American attitudes, along with the Ameriican media not reporting things as they really were in Europe, just sent me over the edge.

I clung to my father's party for a few more years, but when Jimmy Carter announced how SHOCKED he was at the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan (like everyone on God's green earth didn't know they were sneaky, please!) was the last straw!!

After the misery index, 21% interest rates, giving away the Panama Canal, the Irnian hostage crisis, among other things, I had had it!!

I was a registered Dem until we moved up here 9 years ago. When we first moved to rural eastern NC there weren't even enough Republicans to have primaries ..... if you wanted to vote in the primaries, you registered as a D. When we moved up here, we officially changed our registration because this area is pretty strongly GOP.

But I have never voted for anyone but a Republican for president .... going all the way back to Nixon. I was always a conservative at heart I guess ..... what they said always just made more sense.