“Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV” from 2021 is still my fifth most read article. It developed a holistic theory of differences in behavior within American conservatism and liberalism based on the fact that one of these sides has a reading culture while the other exists in a world that is overwhelmingly audiovisual. Here is the key graph from that essay.
This data was from 2019. I’ve always assumed that things must have gotten bleaker since then. We now have confirmation that this is indeed the case.
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I can’t decide whether I love or hate the fact that Elon Musk and Catturd are in the same bucket here
I was surprised to see the Wall Street Journal numbers. Growing up, it was considered a conservative leaning publication.