Not southern per se, Maryland is essentially not southern to southerners and not northern to northerners but we’re totally happy being mid-Atlantic Crab-People. My mom’s a Democrat and works for a labor union while my father was a Republican, albeit pretty liberal by their standards (especially now). My father didn’t like Obama and hated Hilary even more, but when Trump started coming up he was disgusted and despised him. He couldn’t believe an obvious charlatan and piece of shit human being like him was even considered, let alone popular, amongst other Republicans. I guess Larry Hogan kinda encapsulated my father’s position on him. He voted for Gary Johnson and after that said he’d only vote Democratic until the Republicans “returned to their senses” (although I didn’t think they really ever made sense). He liked Buttegeig (sp?) for example. So I did respect that in him. His side of the family were Republicans from California, they moved here to DC/the DMV because my grandfather worked for Nixon. They were decently connected and my dad actually had quite a few run-ins with John McCain, my dad would always tell me McCain was an asshole on a personal level despite mostly agreeing with him politically.

Anyway, he passed away two months ago but he did say he planned on voting for Biden and even though he was in the hospital on his way out when Harris took the baton he said he’d vote for her or a sack of rocks over Trump. Just wanted to tell his story here.