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vlyons

(10,252 posts)
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 12:55 PM Nov 2016

Ladies! What's your family suffragette story

Wishing that my grandmother and Auntie could be here today! Long deceased, but not forgotten. They would be so filled with pride today! Longtime Dems. My grandmother was a Dem precinct chairwoman in Dallas for years and years. Born in 1881 in Kentucky and travelled to Texas in a covered wagon, when she was 5. A delegate to the Dem national conventions for many years. Abandoned and left with 6 children by husband in the middle of the depression. But managed to provide for herself and children, like the strong Texas woman that she was. She would be so very very joyous today to vote for Hillary.

My own mother was a die-hard Reagan Republican. But I suspect that she would not have voted for Trump. She hated vile, vulgar men, who bragged about their sexual conquests. She would probably just leave the presidential part of her ballot unmarked.

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Ladies! What's your family suffragette story (Original Post) vlyons Nov 2016 OP
My grandmother also from Texas True_Blue Nov 2016 #1

True_Blue

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1. My grandmother also from Texas
Tue Nov 8, 2016, 01:34 PM
Nov 2016

She raised 2 children during the depression in Texas. My grandfather got a job as a surveyor for the WPA. She would have accused you of blasphemy if you insinuated that Roosevelt was anything less than the greatest President ever.

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