Sometimes we can over-analyze these things. Why is Hollywood so predominantly liberal? Just look at who they are and what they do. That’s what Richard Posner does below.
But why should actors and other creative workers in the Hollywood film industry, and indeed “cultural workers” more generally, be drawn to political extremes? The nature of their work, which combines irregular employment with high variance in income, an engagement with imaginative rather than realistic concepts, noninvolvement in the production of “useful” goods or service, and, traditionally, a bohemian style of living (a consequence of the other factors I have mentioned), distances them from the ordinary, everyday world of work and family in a basically rather conservative, philistine, and emphatically commercial society, which is the society of the United States today.
See his, as well as Gary Becker’s, complete post below.
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Why Is Hollywood Dominated by Liberals? Posner
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