Reply #10: To an extent.

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You are, of course, influenced by many things, and where you live, the local culture, the people around you, all matter in shaping your world view.

But as JohnKleeb points out, you're also affected by what you get to study in school. As Calm_Blue_Ocean points out, where you live makes a difference.

I've lived in various parts of the country, have always been fairly liberal and am getting more so as I get older. I'm currently 55 (have a kid who's a high school junior myslef) and live near Kansas City, Missouri, on the Kansas side of the border. Over all, this area is quite conservative, although we do have a Democratic Congressman (not very liberal, however). But the Dean meetups keep on growing every month. Kucinich seems to have pretty good support also. Al Franken, Molly Ivins, and Michael Moore, just to name a few, get full houses, turn away crowds, when they come to town.

After our youngest is through with school, my husband and I hope to relocate somewhere more like us politically.