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GOP praises Bush's economic policies, but say more work needed.(The Orange County Register)

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| September 01, 2004 | Kelleher, James B. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: James B. Kelleher

Mary Young grew up in Detroit in the 1940s and 1950s. Her father was an autoworker who put his faith in two organizations: the UAW and the Democratic Party.

When Young married and left home, she moved to California and rebelled against the orthodoxy of her upbringing by registering as an independent.

An independent she remained for a decade and a half, as she worked as a silk presser in the dry-cleaning trade and took odd jobs cleaning offices to support her kids after she divorced.

Then in 1980, at the age of 36, Young hurled herself off the partisan fence with gusto and registered as a Republican to vote for Ronald Reagan in California's then-closed GOP primary.

"He was my hero," said Young, who's now 60, an Aliso Viejo resident and one of 27 local delegates to the Republican National Convention in New York this week.

"The country was going to hell in a handbasket. ...

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