A teacher in California asked her class, “How many of you are Republicans?”
Everyone in the class raised their hands except for one girl. “Mary,” the teacher inquired, “Why didn’t you raise your hand?”
“Because I’m not a Republican,” she replied. “I’m a Democrat.”
The teacher asked her, “Why are you a Democrat?”
And Mary said, “Well, my mother and my father are both Democrats, so I’m a Democrat, too.”
“Well,” said the teacher in an annoyed tone, “That’s no reason why you have to be a Democrat. You don’t always have to be like your parents. What if your parents were both criminals?”
“Then,” Mary said, “We’d be Republicans.”