Jay Nordlinger regularly comments on is how out of place he feels at concerts the left is very well represented at those events and usually very vocal and that includes the performers & conductors.

Anyway, in the end one’s tastes in arts & manners does not make a lefty or a righty make none-the-less a major part of the debate centers around just that. This is a thing a certain number of C/W artists are fighting too, who would mistake Willie Nelson as a conservative?

It all comes down to the notion that conservative is dumb, left is intellectual.

Another factor in the divide is the tremendous boom in agricultural productivity. The father of a friend who all live in Southwest Minnesota & Southeast South Dakota told me when he was young one person could tend 100 acres of farmland, now that is 1:1000, rural American does not have to be so populated anymore. That dynamic drives so much, can’t keep ‘em on the farm simply because they are redundant by the time they are grown up.