You asked: "Are most folk fans still classic liberals"?

My experience is that "yes". Simply because the folk "lifestyle" tends to be attractive to those people.

Now I'm a huge fan of traditional bluegrass, and over the years I've been to perhaps fifty Bluegrass Festivals and an equal number of concerts. Bluegrass IS folk music, but the demographics of it's audience are MUCH different. The fans are by and large much more conservative. I love that music, and I keep my politics to myself when I'm in that environment. It would be silly to do otherwise...it's not like I'd change anybody's mind on a political issue.

Mudcat demonstrates all the aspects of the "lifestyle" so it's no surprise to me that it's overwhelmingly liberal. It must be a comfortable fit for the odd conservative folk fan though, 'cause as much as they rail at the prevailing political position, they stay, and seem to enjoy it.

My PERSONAL politics are neither left nor right (yer Canadian so you'd understand a bit of that) and often change as new information on an issue comes in.

Cheers

Rick