Just as an FYI, I was certainly raised a conservative democrat. I was from a Union (UAW) family, and was most certainly influenced from the center. However in time, the party drifted, and I shifted. I still look at Tucker Carlson type conservatives as country-club republicans, though I should be past those types of infantile thoughts.
My Ohio congressmen was a conservative dem, but now of course he is sitting in jail (Traficant). In that district which was 90% democrat, you had to register dem so that in primaries you could ensure that the socialist was representing your party. It’s hard to believe one can move from Ohio to California, and go from a Democrat district to a Republican, but we certainly did.
