Large City

Julian Castro: San Antonio, TX Mom was a political activist. Dad was a math teacher and an activist. Both were immigrants from Mexico.

Kamala Harris: Oakland, CA and Montreal Quebec. Her parents were divorced when she was seven. She was raised by her mother. Dad was an immigrant from Jamaica and economics professor at Stanford. Mom was a Tamil Indian immigrant. She moved to Quebec when Kamala was 12. She taught at McGill University and did research at Jewish General Hospital in Quebec.

Jay Inslee: Seattle, WA. Dad was a high school counselor and football coach. Mom was a sales clerk.

Beto O’Rourke: El Paso, TX. Mom owned a furniture store. Her stepfather was Secretary of the Navy. Dad was a local politician and judge

Bernie Sanders: Brooklyn, NY. His dad was a paint salesman. His dad was a Jewish immigrant; his Mom children of Jewish immigrants. His dad was from Galicia, now part of Poland. His Mom’s parents were from Poland and Russia.

Elizabeth Warren: Norman and Oklahoma City, OK. Her dad was a salesman at Montgomery Ward prior to his heart attack, then a custodian for an apartment building. Her Mom worked in the catalog order department of Sears.

Marianne Williamson, Houston, TX Her parents were Jewish. Her Dad was an immigration lawyer.

Small City

Joe Biden: Scranton, PA then DE. Dad was wealthy man in reduced circumstances. Used car salesman.

Pete Buggigieg: South Bend, IN. Both parents taught at Notre Dame. Dad was a Maltese immigrant, had studied to be a Jesuit.

Steve Bullock: Missoula, Montana, Dad was a teacher and administrator

Bill de Blasio: Cambridge, MA, Parents were divorced when he was seven. Raised by his Mom. Dad was a wounded veteran, magazine editor, federal and corporate budget analyst, and suicide. Mom worked for the Office of War Information. She was an author, editor, and aide to Edward Land of the Polaroid Corporation. Both parents were investigated for Communist sympathies.

Mike Gravel: Springfield, MA. Parents were French Canadian immigrants. Dad was a housepainter

Andrew Yang: Schenectady, NY Parents were immigrants from Taiwan. Dad was researcher for IBM and GE

Suburbs

Cory Booker, Harrington Park NJ, Parens were executives at IBM

John Delaney: Woodridge, NJ. Dad was an electrician.

John Hickenlooper: Narbeth, PA On the Main Line outside of Philadelphia His Dad died young, his grandfather was a federal judge. His great grandfather was a Union general.

Amy Klobuchar: Plymouth, MN Minneapolis suburb. Parents were divorced when she was fifteen. Her dad was a sportswriter and columnist. Her mom was a second grade teacher. Her maternal grandparents were from Switzerland. Her paternal grandparents from Slovenia.

Seth Moulton: Marblehead, MA. Boston suburb. His Dad was a real estate attorney

Small towns

Michael Bennett: Middletown, CT. His Dad was a President of Wesleyan

Kirsten Gillebrand: Upstate NY. Both parents were lawyers.

Tim Ryan: Niles, Ohio Parents divorced when he was seven. Raised by his Mom.

Rural

Tulsi Gabbard: Hawaii. Her Dad is an Hawaiian State Senator and leader of a group opposed to homosexuality. He is of Samoan (Tulsi was board in American Samoa) and European ancestry. Her Mom is from Indiana, is of German descent, and is a practicing Hindu as is Tulsi.

Wayne Messam: South Bay, FL Both parents were African-Jamaican immigrants from Jamaica. His dad cut sugar cane.

Eric Swalwell: Sac City IA and Dublin CA. Dad was a police chief in Iowa.