These 5 Shows Bring Everyone Together Both Liberals And Conservatives With Wildly Different TV-Viewing Habits
There’s been a lot of concern about how conservatives and liberals consume their news from sources that merely confirm their preexisting beliefs. The result, supposedly, has been a disintegration of a shared reality and a fracturing of the nation’s political life.
But does this trend extend to the shows we choose to watch on TV to relax and unwind?
Since 2007, the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California has been tracking how Americans’ favorite TV shows are connected to their attitudes on a host of hot-button political issues.
In each of these studies – including our most recent one – we found that people with different political beliefs seem to be drawn to different types of TV entertainment.
But in the most recent study, there was also a distinct overlap: certain ...