[mediocregopher]

Most of those "republican" artists are country music artists, while most of the "democrat" artists are pop/rap (although it's easy to confuse the two these days). I would expect the rest of the world would not find country music as appealing as pop.

[ajross]

Honestly, modern "country" is "pop". They're distinguished demographically (country artists and fans skew more white and rural than the general US population) and geographically (Nashville vs. LA as the centers of the business), not so much musically. Other than a handful of tells (the accent in which the music is sung, the occasional use of slide guitar or fiddle) there's very little difference.