# How much did your upbringing determine your politics?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-your-upbringing-determine-your-politics/732264>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 23, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-your-upbringing-determine-your-politics/732264 "2015-09-23T02:38:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-your-upbringing-determine-your-politics/732264/41 "2015-09-26T02:12:30Z")

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Depends on how you interpret the question. Not at all if you go by what political party my parents vote for. But it’s pretty much how I was raised as a Christian that led me to be liberal. The only thing holding me back was abortion, but [good ol’ Uncle Cece](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2817/when-does-human-life-begin) helped out with that.

In fact, to this day, I think most of my Republican friends are only that way due to ignorance. I’m not saying you can’t be a smart Republican, but their values align much more with the Democrats, except in a couple areas that the GOP has no intent on actually fixing.

Like, for instance, this bullshit about defunding Planned Parenthood, after an obviously emotionally manipulative video and a complete lack of understanding of what we actually pay them to do.

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