There’s a legit conversation to be had re why the mainstream media fixates so strongly on Republican voters, even when Democrats are politically ascendant. Republican voters are 90ish percent white, heavily working class &/or rural which has long been equated to “real American.”
https://twitter.com/Toure/status/1475560538415538180
U.S. popular culture has almost always centered this particular type: the white guy who frequents a certain kind of diner, has a working class job and a stay-at-home wife as the central character in the American story. That guy and super rich white men get main character billing.
Everyone else, including white “hippies” and POC are often treated as supporting characters. In TV/movies they’re often the best friend who parachutes in with on-time wisdom and support. In news they’re often the crime, sports or entertainment headline or the rare Obama type pol.
That centering is deeply seeded in U.S. culture and it definitely shapes the way decisions are made about what stories to emphasize and who to focus on. But as the country becomes more diverse, that framing has to shift, in order to truly understand what’s happening in America.
I feel like some media people truly get that, while others are tripling down on the old framing because it helps them hold and excite a particular audience. And since media is super fractured, people can choose their own adventure in terms of where they get their information.
.@TiffanyDCross wrote a terrific book about this BTW called Say It Louder. Y’all should check it out! harpercollins.com/products/say-i…
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