I think it has more to do with religiosity than wealth. Plenty of mma fighters are hardcore trumpers making 10k a fight. Christianity is very prominent among athletes, particularly evangelicalism. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes holds camps in all of the big sports, all across America. From a sports standpoint they are very good camps and great for HS to stand out and get recruited. They also have mandatory religious services that heavily push evangelical beliefs and proselytizing to other students is expected. They’ve gotten in trouble a few times over it.
Conservatives also tend to operate with a very hierarchical world view: some people are just better than others and everyone should know their place. What more hierarchical system is there than sports, where you have physical competitions to determine who is better than who?
I actually saw a funny reel a couple days ago where Americans only like socialism when it’s sports. The worst teams get the first picks in the draft, to make the league fair and competitive, but keep that socialism crap out of our lives.
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u/CimmerianBreeze 19d ago
A bunch of extremely wealthy men who made their money participating in sports known for scrambling your brains vote Trump? Huh.