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MAGA women want a Hallmark "home for the holidays" fantasy — but their votes run their kids off | analyzing Hallmark Channel Christmas movies and their audience (www.salon.com)
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This is actually a great analysis of Hallmark Channel's Christmas movies, and why their plots frequently center on 30-something year old women who abandon their successful big city lives to move back to their home towns and marry the handsome "boy next door." It seems to be a very popular fantasy among the network's primary audience, conservative women aged 50+ (70% of the channel's viewers.)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago

This is an amazing article, thank you for sharing. As someone who fled red-state rural America for blue-state urban living I can't put it better than this article. Everything was like reading from my own history.

I went to college to become more skilled in the labor force. I realized quickly that would give me the ability to move anywhere in the country and get a job.

The most welcoming place I've lived is my very blue state urban city. People here don't care who I am, what I'm into (as long as it doesn't hurt other people), what religion I am, or what my profession is. It's by far a lot nicer than "nice" rural small towns