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‘Duck Dynasty’ vs. ‘Modern Family’:
50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide

"Western Conservative Summit 2016 "

.. this is a bonzer of an article .. inside the top map changes to show
where each show is popular .. find your slot with the tool at the bottom .. enjoy ..



By JOSH KATZ DEC. 27, 2016

Americans have been clustering themselves into cultural bubbles just as they have clustered in political bubbles. Their TV preferences confirm that.

If you had to guess how strongly a place supported Donald J. Trump in the election, would you rather know how popular 'Duck Dynasty' is there, or how George W. Bush did there in 2000? It turns out the relationship with the TV show is stronger.

That’s how closely connected politics and culture can be.

The cultural divide largely falls along urban/rural lines. We saw a similar divide .. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/upshot/this-election-highlighted-a-growing-rural-urban-split.html .. in November, with Hillary Clinton winning in cities, college towns, Native American reservations and areas with black and Hispanic majorities. Mr. Trump earned more votes in rural areas.

When we looked at how many active Facebook users in a given ZIP code “liked” certain TV shows, we found that the 50 most-liked shows clustered into three groups with distinct geographic distributions. Together they reveal a national culture split among three regions: cities and their suburbs; rural areas; and what we’re calling the extended Black Belt .. http://www.deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline/ .. — a swath that extends from the Mississippi River along the Eastern Seaboard up to Washington, but also including city centers and other places with large nonwhite populations.

Shows most common in urban areas:



Adventure Time .. American Horror Story .. Family Guy .. Game of Thrones .. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia .. Modern Family .. MythBusters .. Once Upon a Time .. Orange Is the New Black .. Saturday Night Live .. So You Think You Can Dance .. South Park .. The Big Bang Theory .. The Daily Show .. The Simpsons .. The Tonight Show .. Tosh.0

Shows most common in rural areas:



16 and Pregnant .. American Dad! .. America’s Funniest Home Videos .. Bones .. Cake Boss .. Criminal Minds .. Dancing With the Stars .. Deadliest Catch .. Duck Dynasty .. Fast n’ Loud .. Grey’s Anatomy .. NCIS .. Pawn Stars .. Pretty Little Liars .. Ridiculousness .. Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory .. Supernatural .. Teen Mom l.. The Vampire Diaries .. The Voice .. The Walking Dead .. Wipeout

Shows most common in the extended Black Belt:



106 & Park .. Bad Girls Club .. Empire .. Keeping Up With the Kardashians .. Law & Order: SVU .. Love & Hip Hop .. Real Housewives of Atlanta .. Scandal .. SpongeBob SquarePants .. The First 48 .. The Tom and Jerry Show

In the 1960s and ’70s, even if you didn’t watch a show, you at least probably would have heard of it. Now television, once the great unifier, amplifies our divisions.

This reflects the business of television as much as it does a fracturing national culture. In the past, notes James Poniewozik, the chief television critic for The New York Times, big network shows like “The Beverly Hillbillies” “reflected a business where sheer audience numbers were more important.” Now, advertising money is driven less by volume and more by demographics. You make more ad money, Mr. Poniewozik explains, by appealing to younger, more affluent, urban viewers.

Still, there are shows that find broader appeal. We’ve created a fandom map for each of the top 50 shows, ranked in order of the difference between their highest and lowest fan percentages. As you get deeper in the page, you’ll find the shows with more consistent popularity — points of unity in a splintering culture.

[ the 50 maps with a little blurb on each .. as this one for number 50

“The Vampire Diaries” is based on a book series for adolescents and young adults. A teenage girl becomes involved with vampires in a small Virginia town full of supernatural beings. Als with several other shows that focus on the supernatural, it’s slightly more popular outside of cities. That said, the show’s fandom has the smallest amount of spatial variation of all 50 shows.

Most Similar
America’s Funniest Home Videos
Supernatural
The Tom and Jerry Show

Least Similar
Family Guy
Tosh.0
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Find which cultural bubble your town or city falls into by using this handy tool: .. it's inside,

with the other 50 maps .. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/26/upshot/duck-dynasty-vs-modern-family-television-maps.html

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