When Maurice Washington was growing up, practically everybody he knew was a Democrat. “Everybody in your family, your neighbors—they were all Democrats,” Washington, executive chair of the Charleston County Republican Party, said on Epoch TV’s “Crossroads” program. Washington recalled his father, a sanitation worker, dying when he was in 9 years old. His mother told her children that they would have to grow up faster. “So different values developed for me and my nine siblings, following mom’s step, working and investing in self and mind and not relying on government to pull you out,” Washington said. “I tried to be a Democrat, more or less to stay in connection with other African Americans. It just didn’t work out. I always felt odd speaking the values that she instilled in us, and it was never really embraced by the Democratic Party. And so it led to the change and where I’m …