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The Republicans have gotten good through smart targeting in marketing themselves as the Coors Light brand in contrast to coffeehouse NPR liberals on the Democrat side. In the 1970s, the 'working-class everyman' who Springsteen supposedly represented really was (relatively) apolitical. Another good example is rodeo, which in the 70s was for good ol'boy fuckups who liked to drink beer and get on bulls because they're insane. Now it's evangelical country all the way. It's similar in trucking, it was big in 70s popular culture and not right-wing at all but more bucking the system in a general kind of way:
https://youtu.be/Sd5ZLJWQmss