I was 8 years old. I didn't become a Socialist until I was about 12.
my family was bluecollar Catholic ethnic Dem, that's how i was raised. when i started thinking for myself (which unfortunately was well after graduating law school) i saw the light. My hub took off a semester from college to campaign for Mo Udall! it was when he got his job on Capital Hill that we both converted. I can't imagine my kids EVER being a lib or a dem. they consider the very terms to be epithets!