How did fans of these music genres vote in 2012?

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Breaking down various forms of metal and "core" genres by voting habit is as useless as doing so for most sub-sets of hip-hop (e.g. krunk, southern, east coast, etc.).

Suffice to say that Christian and Country music fans vote overwhelmingly Republican. Almost as much as classic rock, an overwhelming white, middle-aged (or older), and skews male. "Pop", to the extent it isn't "urban", is heavily white female, and thus largely dependant on age, running from probably mixed voting for younger voters to notably (but not overwhelimingly) GOP for listeners closer to middle-age.

[Badger]

Country - strong gop
Pop - depends on sub-genre; Taylor Swift - strong GOP; Katy Perry - leans GOP; Madonna - leans Dem; Lady Gaga - strongly democratic
Post-grunge - lean GOP
Pop Punk - lean GOP
Hardcore Punk - lean GOP
Metalcore - GOP
Christian Hardcore* - strong GOP
Christian Contemporary - ridiculoulsy GOP
Classical - toss-up
Heavy Metal - GOP
Death Metal - scary nihilistic rightwingers
Black Metal - scary nihilistic rightwingers
Post-hardcore - GOP
Grindcore - GOP
Emoviolence - GOP
Christian Emoviolence** - strong GOP
Reggae - strong Dem/green
Indie Rock - lean Dem
Electronic - lean Dem
Classic Rock - GOP
Post-Rock - GOP

*It is worth nothing that there is actually a Christian "sound" in hardcore that is slightly different from non-Christian bands, so there is a musical differentiation, not just lyrical content. It's more moshy and has a far higher percentage of songs consisting of breakdowns.
**This includes about six bands total, none of which are active today.

mostly white people music, no? Given the demographics, I would say most of the above probably lean GOP.

So by this logic, the coffee shop across the street from me which has a well over 90% white clientele has a mostly Republican customer base. And the people at the hundreds of shows I've been to which includes anti-Iraq War activism fundraisers and recently a fundraisers against the Minnesota gay marriage ban and Voter ID amendments are mostly Republicans as well. This is what a gathering of Republicans looks like! Oh and as this photo is almost all white people it's obviously that most people in it are Republicans:




Demographic simplification fail.

I think you are the one vastly simplifying things here. You sound like Bandit transposing his own deeply-held views on his immediate environment and concluding that Occupy is a slumbering political force in Kentucky. Just because a couple hundred mostly white students or hipsters show up for a rally like that says little overall about the voting patterns of whites generally, even in MN.

This is a cute thread topic (albeit one whose author was immediate apparent from the title), but don't kid yourself into believing that demographics like race and income aren't a trillion times better an indicator of voting habits than what type of 'core' music someone's into.

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To answer your question, Zach, I think merely looking at the voting habits of young college educated low to moderate incomes and non-church going habits says infintely more about voting habits than whether said voters are into emoviolence vs. Hardcore.