[Espy]

My background/environment is a mishmash of...kind of everything, really.

Grew up (aka spent the first eighteen years of my life) in the Silicon Valley/Bay Area. We've got huge corporations, lots of conservative folk, an area know as Los Altos Hills which is home to some really, really rich people...and then Berkeley and San Francisco.

My hometown/neighborhood's probably 95% old Caucasian couples who are the first or second owners of the 50+ year old houses. My parents are...pretty conservative, too, I guess?

I go to college in Pittsburgh, which nowadays is actually pretty damn liberal. It's a refreshing change from the Bay Area, to be honest...though that's already far from being conservative, itself.

My parents aren't exactly liberal, and we're kind of...at odds on...many subjects.