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In reply to the discussion: I just found out that one of my great great grandfathers served on the Confederate side [View all]Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)My son has served in the Navy for nearly 20 years. And my dad is an almost 93-year old veteran of WWII Marine Corps in the Pacific. He's a direct descendant of our ancestor who fought the Tories and British in the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War.
The entire family consists of Democrats only, by the way, in a red state. We've had a few members join the family who had no interest in politics, but they all became active Democrats. My great-grandfather told his daughter, my grandmother, on his deathbed in 1928, to promise him she's always vote for Democrats. The reason? Economic depression. He said he'd lived through three depressions that wiped him out and all were caused by Republican bankers, but that the regular guy could make money under Democrats. He died the year BEFORE the big crash of 1929.
My grandmother, rest her soul, wouldn't put her money in the "Republic" Bank or buy a Hoover vacuum cleaner.