Our TV Shows, Ourselves

NYT looks at the popularity of television shows across the country.

From a purely visual perspective, New York Times’ maps showing the nationwide breakdown of the popularity of 50 different television shows based on the amount of Facebook likes they garner are quite pretty, kaleidoscopic when taken in total.

But as with the reds, blues and purples of electoral maps, the pinks, peaches and purple of the Upshot’s TV maps have a larger significance, with our tastes in television programming revealing the regional, cultural and political divides that exist here as in so many aspects of American life.

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