Oliver Wendell Holmes

My father's parents were Yellow Dog Democrats in Texas. As the decades went on, however, dad increasingly couldn't make sense of this. He believed they remained obstinately loyal to the party despite seismic shifts in its political beliefs. Each time I heard this come up dad used the same anecdote about how JFK would've been a Republican in subsequent decades with his economic … [Read more...] about From Republican Fanboy to Blue Dog Democrat: The Reasons I Left the GOP