On Thu, 24 May 2001, K.Feete wrote:
> 73 messages in my mailbox- gee, I must have posted to Brin-L. <grin>
>
> Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> >"K.Feete" wrote:
> >
> >> Let me explain with a few examples of actual questions I've been asked:
> >
> ><snip>
> >>
> >> "Why did you lot elect Bush?"
> >>
> >Do you answer that _we_ didn't?
>
> Funny thing, that. Maybe it's just the circles I move in, but I've only
> met 2 people who actually did vote for Bush- my grandfather, and JDG. So
> who the hell did vote for him, anyway?
It's partly the circles you move in. Most of the people with whom I had
Thanksgiving dinner had voted for Bush. You should have seen the scene
later when my mother-in-law discovered that my brother-in-law had voted
for Harry Browne. It was funny, at least to him and me.
My sister's Thanksgiving was a little less homogenized -- she was afraid
that someone would bring up the election, and it would get ugly, because
she knew how some of the people had voted, and why, and when people over
60 start disagreeing over political matters, there's very little hope of
anyone changing anyone else's mind. (And she was the only one under 50 at
*that* gathering.)
Then again, I'm related by blood to people who have done all kinds of
things that I disagree with, that cause me some shame when I realize I'm
related to them. (Such as shutting down the public school system in one
Virginia county (at least, I think it was a Virginia county) instead of
integrating the schools when lawsuits were filed against the school
district. THAT was not the most pleasant thing to find in the box of
family papers I unpacked earlier this month to sort by branch of the
family....)
Julia
