I am not the 36 Chambers wrestling aficionado; that would be our resident Penguatroll. When I read this Big Hollywood article about a Tea Party wrestling villain, my first question was “Wait, this doesn’t make sense. Wouldn’t most pro wrestling fans be right-of-center to the extent that they’re political?” After checking out a very helpful graph via Steve Sailer, it all clicked for me. Wrestling fans are remarkably non-political, but a huge percentage of the ones who are political tend to be left-leaning. Sailer also has a rather old article (dating back to 2001) explaining why this should not have been surprising to me.
The More You Know.
You may be reading too much into this; the character was introduced in Arizona, I want to say, and they haven’t left Texas for a while. Since they just turned a Mexican babyface (Alberto Del Rio), an immigrant hating mouthpiece for an extremely talented but uncharismatic wrestler is a good call. Most WWE audience root how Vince/HHH wants them to root — John Cena is a glaring exception, and even then it’s a big city/”smark” city thing.
Comment by Tony Demchak — February 27, 2013 @ 4:30 am