Well, I suppose I???ll add this: I became ???conservative??? (of a certain kind, broadly Tocquevillean), not because I was raised in a little town of Utah where everyone was straight and white and Mormon (I went to a Seattle-area H.S. with 2 other LDS, lots of Jews); my parents weren???t particularly political; I was still politically unformed, voting Democratic, studying Rawls (when Rawls was new