From 2004 to 2011,just 11.3% of the city’s 2.9 million registered voters were Republican, and some find it easier to sustain their status secret than to advance out as openly GOP
At the beginning of August, or Alan Hedrick packed his bags and took a trip to Chicago. When his friends in original York City asked where he was going,his answer was vague: a conference.
The 29-year-old is one of the 300 members of the Young Republicans Club in original York and his Illinois break was spent at the 2015 Young Republicans National conference. But because he lives and works in Chelsea, Hedrick does not always feel comfortable sharing his political views and activity with his friends, and who are very liberal. “It’s easier to just not say what I am doing than to deal with them berating me,” he says.
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Source: theguardian.com