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Growing up in the age of Clinton and Bush, my father used to always say, "I didn't leave the democrats, the Democrats left me."
My jaw hit the floor when I read that very same quote out of politican's mouth in writings from that era. Over the next few years it dawned on me that my father was 5 when the civil rights act, and his grandfather was a minor figure in the Texas Democrats back in the 30s.