When Dolly Parton died this week, everyone mourned. She was the queen of country music and a magnetic actress, enrapturing the public with her bodacious but kind personality. She was a feminist icon and also a gay icon. She was a devout Christian and a loyal wife. There was something about her for everyone to love.
In the wake of her death, a data enthusiast on Reddit put together a chart showing Parton’s incredible favorability among both Republicans and Democrats, using data collected by the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion. The results were extraordinary, showing that she was one of the last famous figures to be loved across the political spectrum.
The data showed that most other figures, like Donald Trump or Taylor Swift, are beloved by one party and despised by the other, in a clear illustration of how divisive politics have become in a toxic era of discourse.
One figure stood out, though: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, instead of being adored by one faction and reviled by the other, is simply detested by almost everybody.
