You joined about a month after me. The Bush-Gore fiasco in FL was the catalyst for me.
The Clinton fiasco sealed it for me.
As a college student, voting for the first time, I read everything available about the candidates. ‘Course in the late 70s there was little access to information. However, I realized that I did not identify as a democrat. Mind you, where I grew up, everyone around me was a democrat.
Took me awhile. But when I told Mama that I was not a democrat, she informed me that there had been an earthquake in Virginia. I said, no, Mama, I would’ve heard about it. Then she chuckled and told me it was all my dead relatives rolling over in their graves from Southwest Virginia to Richmond. BWAHAHAHA!!