“I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.” PeopleEvilEnvironmentGrewRepublicanGrew UpDemocratSupposed To BeRacistDetroitEvil People Author:Benjamin Carson
“I'm not a typical Republican. I am a Republican, I wear the Republican jersey, I've been a Republican my whole life. My dad was a Republican, which is interesting because he was in a union early on. The Republican party was very strong in the area that I grew up in. So I'm a loyalist.” WholeStrongInterestingPartyGrewDadRepublicanGrew UpAreasUnionsMy DadWhole LifeVery StrongTypicalRepublican PartyJerseyLoyalists Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.” KnowsKidsGuyGroupsCollegeGrewDadRepublicanGrew UpLaborHorseDemocraticDemocratMy DadJewLawyerImmigrantsBubblesHippieHardworking Author:David Mamet
“The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.” PeopleWayPartyGrewRepublicanGrew UpReactionsRepublican PartyMisunderstoodSegregation Author:Jeff Sessions
“I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.” RunningBornCommunityNew YorkGrewNeededRepublicanGrew UpDemocratNeighborhoodMarchBrooklynOur CommunityMarch On WashingtonBrooklyn New York Author:Leah D. Daughtry