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My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

I grew up in a very conservative home.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.