I don't know how long a question like this can be discussed at Mudcat without the thread needing to be closed ot stop the chaos, but I thought I'd give it a try.

In the thread on Why Middle Class People Play Music, Steve Shaw said the following:

Don't want to extrapolate too much, but I do wonder whether this explains why a website like Mudcat attracts (apparently) a disproportionate number of somewhat right-wing people who are so intolerant of the tribulations that less fortunate people have to live through. You might have thought, naively mebbe, that folkies wouldn't be like that. But, knowing that folkies may be, on average, a bit more middle class and a bit more smug than expected... :-(

And an unnamed Guest replied:

Steve, that's a bit extrapolate-y. Also, I tend to not see many "right-wingers," (save the one or two extremely vocal who I'll leave nameless), but more liberal people (not necessarily "left-wingers," but left-leaning) on this site. Also, middle-class people tend to be (as a group) rather middle-of-the-road, not so strongly right-winged or left-winged. There seems to be some infrequent banter online about it, but I haven't been able to locate any numbers supporting one side or the other

I think I can count Mudcat right-wingers on the fingers of one hand. I guess that is "disproportionate." In most places, one would expect far closer to fifty percent instead of less than one percent. But that's not really a topic for a music thread. Maybe you could post that question in a BS thread, Steve, and see if the discussion could be civil.