We each make assumptions about who we are, what we’re about. And sometimes, those assumptions change over time.
Between voting age and late 2006, my running assumption about my own politicalness was that I was more Republican than anything else. Since late ’06, with a few fluctuations in between, I’ve consistently felt more Independent than Republican.
The latter was validated when I looked at these two charts — and saw more of my own mind in the trendlines on the first chart than the second.