I agree! I raised my children very differently than I was raised. They would be unrecognizable from their family members 2 generations before them (the adults in my life as a child).

I totally agree, and it gets better with each generation, my granddaughter’s birthday party a few weeks ago was such a rainbow of colors and no one paid any thought to this, simply 12 year old girls and boys having a great time. But I am 60 and my husband is 77 and I had to do a lot of convincing to get him past the “name” not the color of the skin. He finally did enought listening, both to me and to Obama - now I can’t get him out of his shirt with his “I Voted” sticker on it.

I love that imagery. Re: over-65 whites, a tough nut to crack, no doubt, but not impossible. My parents — both in their 70s, Florida residents, and conservative Catholics to boot — were not only big Obama supporters but part of his army of volunteers. Over the past couple of months, every time I talked to them, Dad would say, “This election is going to kill me! Do you think he’ll win? Do you? It’s going to kill me if he doesn’t!” while Mom bemoaned her lost opportunity to vote for Hillary. She supported Obama a bit grudgingly at first, but then became his number one fan. The best part was when Dad had to cut some of our phone calls short. “I love you, sweetheart, but I gotta go load another pile of old people into the van and make sure they register to vote.” The county where they live voted mostly republican, but it was by no means a landslide. When I saw their state turn blue I called them up right away and screamed, “THANK YOU, FLORIDA!!” Old people are funny.

Oh yes, that weight of nervousness and anxiety about some “October Surprise”, expecting some hammer to fall every time I turned on the TV or logged on. So glad it is over and final, and really true !!! However I am exhausted today …. I stayed up til 3 surfing every channel, finding every new talking head, getting every point of view - and when I finally got to bed I couldn’t sleep :-( finally drifted off around 5 only to have my alarm, which is set to NPR, go off at 7:30 where I started hearing local results. Then a Dr. appt. at 10 ! And what am I doing now, at midnight ……watching Charlie Rose with another great conversation ! I have to stop !!!…. it’s real, it’s not going to disappear, it really happened !! I think I’ll take a swig of Chardonay and go to bed …. FINALLY ! I raised my sons just like you, but boy, I grew up with my parents always asking” What nationality is he,what religion is he, what does his father do, where does he live ? “: dating a “colored boy” ( can you imagine !!!! ) was out of the picture. My sons had a very different upbringing and are much better for it, in fact my son’s Vietnamese girlfriend differed her last semester at Columbia to help Obama win Pennsylvania, which is what made me relate to the story above. I’ve been humming Streisands “Happy Days Are Here Again” all day !