How did fans of these music genres vote in 2012?

[traininthedistance]

Classical- Democratic due to the large amount of academic/professor types that usually like classical

I'd actually say that classical is Lean R despite its intellectual bent, seeing as the largest audience is still country club olds.  Go to your local symphony, and the ads in the program are going to mostly be for "active living senior communities" and trust funds.  Oh, and luxury cars.

The musicians themselves, of course, are about super-safe D as can be.

[traininthedistance]

Classical- Democratic due to the large amount of academic/professor types that usually like classical

I'd actually say that classical is Lean R despite its intellectual bent, seeing as the largest audience is still country club olds.  Go to your local symphony, and the ads in the program are going to mostly be for "active living senior communities" and trust funds.  Oh, and luxury cars.

The musicians themselves, of course, are about super-safe D as can be.

So are the country club olds you mentioned.

Not if my family is any indication.  And they're from New Jersey, where one would expect to find a higher-than-average percentage of liberals among country club olds.

[traininthedistance]

Fans of modernist classical music, however, are obviously quite Democratic.  We have the best taste and the best smarts, after all.

But y'all underestimate the percentage of classical music fans who think that everything went to sh!t after Debussy and Mahler, if not decades previous.  And who, when it comes to popular music, still haven't quite cottoned to the infernal noise of those young whippersnappers from Liverpool.  "I Want To Hold Your Hand?"  The carnal effrontery!