Jim Wilkins wrote:

I read an analysis of the demographics of reality show viewers which
observed that conservatives like Dancing With the Stars etc because it
shows the contestants succeeding by their own efforts, while liberals
preferred to feel superior to dysfunctional people.

I've never seen this show
so I have no way to tell who would watch
or why.

But I thought it had been established by the OP
as a matter of empirical fact
that dancers were all liberals.

Is that not so?