What makes you Dem/Repub/Indep?

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I am a Democrat because the Republicans, at least in Minnesota, are the "I'm white, I'm wealthy, and I live in the suburbs" party.

Republicans here are very mean-spirited, and it shows in the way they campaign and the way they have contempt for anybody that isn't white, wealthy, and from the suburbs.

There is an "elitist" wing of the Democratic party in the U.S.  They're the "I'm smarter than you" crowd.  But on the other side, you have the "My blood is better than yours" crowd.. and at least I can go to school and become an elitist.  Nothing short of draconian medieval bloodletting will get me in with the Good Ole' Boys of the Grand Old Party.

I have a real sense of identity with fellow Democratic-Farmer-Laborites in northern Minnesota.

I know my local representatives (all of which are DFLers) and I believe the party benefits enormously from this urban-rural partnership that we have.  There's an element of down-homeness and you can put a face on the party.  I see the Republican party as a faceless crowd of the religiously obsessed, the arrogant rich, and cultureless suburbanites.