What percentage of your family are RW/fundie/pro-DOMA?

[StellaBlue]

Today's events still have my head spinning. I am just curious as to whether many DUers come from a RW, freeper, fundie, pro-DOMA background. I have a feeling it will be pretty high.

What made you different?

In my case, I think it's that I have an innate curiosity, and an innate rebellion. I come from a Southern, high-school-educated, working people, Southern Baptist/Methodist type of of background. And yet I learned to think. So I make no excuses for my wilfully ignorant relatives. I think being a reader had a lot to do with it, too. These people just don't ever expose themselves to new ideas, don't ever exercise their brains.

Edited to add: I also notice a generational gap. My WWII-generation relatives have NO clue about life outside their bubble; think homosexuals are a tiny, perverted piece of America; think feminism is all about hating men, lesbianism, and baby-eating; think Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9/11; think questioning the literal veracity of the Bible is, well, unthinkable.

[StellaBlue]

1. kick

[NNadir]

2. I have a fundie sister-in-law who nonetheless votes Democratic.

I don't push the issue.

She has the usual fundy stuff - strange sexual attitudes - contempt for gay people, but she didn't vote for Bush either time.

It's OK with me.

She spends far less time trying to convert my wife and I than she did years ago too. That's a winner.

[proud patriot]

3. 1 GrandFather Fundie Dittohead

2 grandparents wealthy not religious republicans.
and an Uncle who's a Fundie Dittohead , but that is it ...

[Mythsaje]

4. I've got a weird rich uncle who's a RWer...

At least I think so. He's rich, white, and involved in politics, or so my dad says. He's no fundie, though. Agnostic or atheist, would be my guess.

[seemunkee]

5. One rich uncle and nephew are RW, no fundies

My uncle is in the Bush demographic for the tax cuts and his son is right behind him. His daughter is a staunch lefty though.

[melnjones]

6. out of all 80 or so of us on both sides...

I'd say maybe 8 are dem? And that's including people who have married in.

[CatholicEdHead]

7. My immediate family are moderate economic Republicans

but they are quite socially liberal and go to a pretty left of center Catholic Parish. I still cannot get around the tax arguments with them and there is still a post-9/11 fear stigma that has still not lifted.

[gcolvin]

8. My whole turned on its head in the 90's

My dad's family is Southern Baptist. One of my uncles is a youth minister of a Baptist church in the Florida panhandle and another plays the banjo when he's not a detective in a suburb of Dayton. Despite that my father's entire family is Democrat with the notable exception of the banjo playing cop and his wife who constantly dresses like shes wants him to run for mayor.

My mom, my two sisters and their husbands are all kool-aid soaked Republican morons despite the excellent education we received. It's not the religion that makes the difference, as you said, its the lack of intellectual curiosity that causes the brain to atrophy and to make you Dumbya. And I thought my Baptist relatives were the ones who were backward. My sister graduated from Miami University and she doesn't even bother to think about politics although she is a marketing grad. My mom took some college courses in child psychology and she still bought the "Hitler of Baghdad" argument. In fact we got into such a huge fight over Xmas 2003 that she went home crying thinking I was the one who had been brainwashed.

Both of my grandfathers, who served in WWII, were good union men, one a carpenter with the City of Cincinnati and the other a heavy equipment operator, and neither one ever voted for a Republican.

[StellaBlue]

10. The middle paragraph describes my situation

Family gatherings are always fun. Going to a reunion this weekend in East Texas. :eyes:

[orleans]

9. no one in my little family was republican or rw (thank god!)

my father (wwII vet) was very open minded and fair (and accepting of people's differences--be it due to race or sexual preference)

my mother still is

she raised me with various phrases (like: if you ever have a child i hope she's just like you! -- the mother's curse; but she also used to say: open your mind, just open your mind; be a leader not a follower; think for yourself. )

i've tried to raise my daughter to be just as accepting and open minded; i've tried to instill in her that we should be glad for differences and welcome them--rather than simply (or grudgingly) tolerate differences. from what i can tell she's pretty open minded as well.

[TheFarseer]

11. Most of my family is fundie

Most have seen the light on bush. However, I suspect most of them will vote republican in 2006, mostly because of abortion. My grandfather voted bush in 2000 and is now a rabid anti-bush guy, maybe(probably?) even rabid enough to vote against his enablers. On edit, he REALLY liked Kerry because he was a veteran. Not everyone is stupid enough to believe the Swiftboaters.