Actually, Bill, I meant nineteenth-century people, but the principle is the same.

And the question isn't restricted to politics. The attitudes and conventions of nineteenth-century American literature are far different from those of today's books, films, etc.

So what does that say about them as a culture or society? Anything much?

How much does popular culture tell us about its consumers? Or does it tell us only about popular culture?

500 words will do.