I’m not sure: it may be in a state of flux. Around half my friends are liberals like me, but the vast majority of the other half are “pox a both your houses” libertarian-lites. If Republicans suddenly start running halfway sane candidates, they will either vote for them or go back to sitting on the fence, but for now they hate Trump slightly more than the Democrats.
Family is probably pretty much 50/50 – but the ones with whom I interact regularly on Facebook tend to share my views. As for friends, I like to think that many of my co-workers are friends, but truthfully, there are not that many that I feel close to. And those are the ones who share my views.
Friends, yes. Family, no. But since I interact with the latter far more infrequently, the answer is Yes overall.
My parents were pretty moderate and apolitical. Most of my friends are conservative or libertarian like me. Not many liberals in this part of the country.
Surprisingly, to me anyway, it seems that all of my immediate family, and the next layer out (aunts & uncles & cousins & on down) align with my political views. I would have expected SOME diversity.
My coworker / team members, who I didn’t choose, are also very aligned with me, with one notable exception. Must be something about the work we do?
Also surprisingly to me, it seems that all of my only-on-Facebook friends - people that I haven’t spoken to since high-school 40 years ago - are aligned with me. I suppose we gravitated to each other at a young age due to shared viewpoints without being politically aware at the time.
I don’t really have IRL friends at this point, so nothing to report there.
HOWEVER, significantly, my spouse, and their family are on the other side. (As a close reading of my posting history will show, I’m not really good at selecting a mate.)
Let’s put it this way. In the California Presidential primary of 1972, I voted for McGovern, my mother voted for Humphrey, my father voted for Nixon and my sister voted for George Wallace.
My family agree with me on some politics and disagree with me on others.
Seattle is pretty much a liberal bubble-town, and my family out on the coast of Washington is as progressive as I am. But they have a different situation, as their county voted Trump this time. I’ve got a few high school friends and extended family that are vocally conservative on Facebook, but they are very much a minority.
I make some effort to read other views from time to time. But I recognize that I don’t see those things in my day-to-day life.
Our friends do, my wife’s family does, my family decidedly does not (but most of them are dead now, so there’s that).
My family includes quite a wide spectrum, both in politics and in how we deal with those with whom we disagree.
Most of my friends are similar to me politically, though I think I’m a bit further to the left than the median of them.
My family, however, includes a wide range, from non-reluctant Trump supporters all the way through the last of the hippies. Plus some anomalies: For instance, my grandfather was fairly liberal overall, but considered FDR the greatest monster in the history of the country. Fortunately, we’ve learned to get along pretty well despite that, possibly due to the influence of my grandmother, who absolutely refused to share her politics with anyone outside of a voting booth.
The majority of my friends, yes.
My family, I honestly don’t know; it’s not discussed, ever.
I discuss politics a fair deal on this board. But I don’t discuss it much in real life.
I grew up in a rural New England family. My family is generally reflective of that; conservative but more of the “mind your own business and don’t tell other people how to live” ideology.
When I was working, most of my co-workers were very conservative. Some were way out on the far right fringe.
My current social circle includes a number of people who are significantly younger than me. They tend to be on the left. I’ll note that the day after the election, one of my friends approached me and asked me how I felt about the election. She’s much younger, non-white, and I believe she’s a bisexual. I’m guessing but I think she had decided that as an older straight white man, I was the person in her social circle who was most likely to have voted for Trump.
My grandma and I line up exactly. In fact, she was more liberal than I was while in high school and I’ve moved more towards her. I went through a Conservative phase (we think our politics should reflect our religion. And the second most important part of Catholicism is "love your neighbor as you love yourself).
I don’t know my parent’s politics, it’s never come up.
My wife is a lot more socially liberal than I am.
What’s funny is my college friends find me incredibly conservative while my friends in the military think I’m just slightly left of Trotsky.