To expand, We had the same parents, same house, same schools, many of the same teachers, obviously went to the same churches growing up. He has voted in one more 4 year cycle of elections than I. First time I voted, I voted for Richard Nixon for President, Lamar Alexander for Governor. Voting Lamar, because the previous Democrat Governor (Ray Blanton) was the most crooked sonovabitch to ever be in office, here in The Great State of Tennessee, and did go to prison after Lamar was sworn in early to prevent the mangy cur from selling more pardons and liquor licenses on the way out the door, to those Dem and Rep that had money. There was a great song out a time to the tune of Chattanuga Choo-Choo, that went "Pardon me Ray, are you the cat that signs the papers, your an old friend of mine, so put your name on the line, etc. Huge effect on Tennessee, huge embarrassment, national story about 50 years ago.
My brother voted the same way I did in that election. We both saw what Nixon did and tried to do. I was young, but came to the conclusion there were fuckups in both parties and would never vote a straight party ticket again, but go for whoever was closest to my views or less harmful to me and the country at the time. But, he took the Nixon thing to heart, worse because he was President, I suppose, and to my knowledge he has only voted once for a Republican since, that being Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee, because he knew him and they talked once in a while in Nashville.
Two brothers, same raising, same experiences to that point, but I became pretty fiercely Independent, due to what I saw, and he became a loyal knee-jerk Democrat vote that could be counted on in basically every election. Otherwise, a normal, hardworking always employed, relatively conservative living, friendly guy who would never do any of the things all Democrats are accused of doing and being, on this board, just because they are Democrats, so obviously I think of him, whenever the nut balls on here are talking all the BS about democrats all being Nazi, scum of the earth, free loading, lawbreaking, child molesting perverts, as it just isn't true of him.