 part of any group that i was in so while i was growing up in calumet city illinois south of chicago in a polish catholic democratic town i was a conservative republican jew in my graduating class of 400 there were four jews and yet when i went to synagogue in hammond indiana across the state line i was from literally the wrong side of the tracks i was from this d-class a calumet city place and i was a conservative and they were all progressives or what you know liberals