The funny thing is, we live in a very far left town
Why are you Conservative? (I'm just asking, by the way, because . . . yeah, you said you live in a far left town. So yyyeah.)
I think that it's actually mainly a hereditary thing having to do with my personality. Generally describing me, one could use the term "conservative" in a non-political sense--I like routine and order, I prefer to stick with things that I know. I've always thought that if one has that sort of mindset to begin with, it certainly makes it more probably that you're going to be conservatively aligned politically.
The reason I said hereditary is that I get a lot of my personality from my grandfather...and not just the "conservative" part. We both like green, we're both stubborn, we both like iceberg lettuce
He and I are now the two (yay...we have two!) Republicans in our family. It was only a few years ago that I really decided that I was conservative, though; before then I hadn't paid much attention to politics, but hearing more about it in the media, and terms such as right wing and left wing, I wanted to know more about them. Looking into the positions that the Republican Party has and the Democratic Party has, I realized that my own personal views plus my religious beliefs (Roman Catholic) mesh much more nicely with the Grand Order of Pachyderms.
So I guess, in summary, what I'm trying to say is that the environment I'm living in hasn't had much of an overall effect on my political views...I'm just an oddball for my town :razz:
I hope that made some sense and I didn't just make a fool of myself
