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I've been a conservative since before I knew what the word meant. I found out what it was at 13.

I grew with the basics since I was little because of parents but I got really involved about two years ago, Im 16 now

i was one sence 7th grade

I'm 17, turning 18 in February. I got my conservative ideals from my parents and my faith. I've grown up mostly in the south, but I've still been exposed to plenty of different ideals. You see, I've lived in some of the more "liberal" states. I've lived in Hawaii, California, Florida, and Virginia. I'm currently in virginia. I've moved back and forth from california several times. And I had some good teachers in elementary school who taught the bill of rights. One of my most vivid memories of 3rd grade was when the teacher was teaching us about the 3rd Amendment: "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."

I remember her telling us to pretend that we were normal colonial families, going about their daily business. Then she stepped outside the door. After that she barged in and scared the living daylights out of us when she started barking orders at us, like a soldier would in that situation. It was interesting. And she also made us celebrate thanksgiving, and do patriotic things like saying the pledge. Something that some of my Californian teachers didn't always do. However, my 5th grade teacher in California wasn't so bad. It was the 4th grade teacher that I didn't like.

My conservative awakening was rather late. Before 9/11, the world of politics was pretty alien to me and thus at the time I virtually had no core beliefs. Over the last ten years, I had come to realize there was the conservative American within me that was waiting to be awakened and that is exactly what happened--I grew from an apolitical person to a single-issue war hawk and eventually realized there was more to the state of America than the War on Terror--there was our own state of living and the state of those in political power and I found that my beliefs lined up with the core beliefs of conservatism virtually perfectly.

Now my primary task is to lead my parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends to their conservative awakening. Luckily, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn is one of the more conservative neighborhoods of all NYC which makes for all the help I can get in a city where almost everywhere else is a blue state in a blue state. o.o

I have been a conservative ever since i went to school (well once i started to actually learn about current events and all that jazz). My dad is a complete history fanatic and I'm a history nerd myself. I'm normally the one to answer the questions in history class correctly. I love to watch Glenn Beck's restoring history thing on fox news. I love the history channels and I think that the people who deprive children of the proper knowledge of what built this country and all of america's history should be out of the business since (i think), they are dumbing the kids down so that the goverment can do more damage to the economy or whatever they are doing wrong. Growing up with a dad who teaches college level history I know a lot about that kind of stuff and how history can change the way everything is now. This might be way off subject but hey I'm only in 8th grade. Talk about being young!

I am proud to say that I am very aware with the world around me but I am not a conservative.