Nope not the setup to a joke, but rather a question I've been asking myself for a while.
Does where I live dictate my label? Or do my values changing because of the region in which I live? This reminds me a lot of the Nature vs Nurture arguments.
I have been thinking about this because of people I've known in each area I've lived. Ohio & Indiana, and now Texas. In Ohio people I have known would have been considered dead center moderates, but in TX they are liberal or barely a moderate with severe leftist leanings. With a few others the opposite has been true; people I would have considered right wing bat $*^# crazy back in OH will be considered conservative here while a moderate in TX is the conservative back home.
I'm not talking about the politicians, but just people that I know. Why does it matter?
Self identification.
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