To the extent you were political as a kid - were your politics then similar to what they are today? [View all]

[Douglas Carpenter]

I have had an interesting experience on Facebook connecting in the past year with people I knew from my elementary or junior high days which would have been in the mid to late 60's. With a couple of exception people who I remember as being more or less liberal politically then are for the most part liberal politically now. People who I remember as politically right-wing then are for the most part politically right wing now. An elementary school friend who was the first person to ever tell me about this wonderful governor from California named Ronald Reagan is now a gun tooting right-wing extremist who lives in a trailer park in Eastern Georgia. Conversely people I new from the same mid to late 60's era who identified with Bobby Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy or Hubert Humphrey or LBJ are for the most part liberal Democrats today. I wonder if this is most peoples experience?









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	To the extent I was political - I was pretty much a liberal or progressive as a kid and I am pretty much liberal or progressive now
	14 (70%)
	Actually, I was raised in a right-wing atmosphere and to the extent I was political because of family influence I was right-wing as a kid but I am more liberal now.
	4 (20%)
	To the extent I was political - I was moderate or centrist as a kid - but I am more liberal or progressive now
	2 (10%)
	To the extent I was political - I was pretty much liberal or progressive as a kid - but I am more moderate/centrist or conservative Democrat now.
	0 (0%)
	I miss the old style candy counters they had in 5 and 10 stores back in the 60's
	0 (0%)
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