Heh, I was expecting, "So, my question of the day is: Why don't we secede and form our own country?"
Anyway, to throw out my opinion, I think part of what you're seeing is that internet users are likely to be more educated than non-users, and education correlates with liberalism. Looking at the professions of people involved in fandom (who I know), I see heavy weighting toward librarians, teachers, scientists and computer geeks - all which tend toward the liberal politically. Most fans are women, and women tend to vote liberal (although not so much in this last election, apparently, as historically, according to a recent article in the Washington Post). And the fandoms I participate in are book-based fandoms, and the typical avid reader tends to be more educated than nonreaders, see above.
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Date: 2004-11-16 11:48 am (UTC)Anyway, to throw out my opinion, I think part of what you're seeing is that internet users are likely to be more educated than non-users, and education correlates with liberalism. Looking at the professions of people involved in fandom (who I know), I see heavy weighting toward librarians, teachers, scientists and computer geeks - all which tend toward the liberal politically. Most fans are women, and women tend to vote liberal (although not so much in this last election, apparently, as historically, according to a recent article in the Washington Post). And the fandoms I participate in are book-based fandoms, and the typical avid reader tends to be more educated than nonreaders, see above.