This competition is similar to the Miss America pageant, said Hal Herzog, a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, who has spent time at dog shows for his research on the implications of shifts in the popularity of breeds.
There's been a shift, too, in the popularity of different drugs on the island.
Mr. Wallace sees the shift in reggae's popularity in the kinds of places reggae promoters are now able to book.
If the Convention gave Bill Clinton's rating a twenty-point "bounce" (one of this year's indispensible political terms along with "family values," of which the bipartisan flip side is "bimbo"), surely it could provide a modest upward shift in popularity for the needy mayor of the Convention's host city.
Evidence of this cultural shift, apparently, is seen in the popularity of TV shows such as The Great British Bake Off, MasterChef and The Great British Sewing Bee – surely vicarious visual pleasures, not manuals for everyday life?
Credit that shift to the rise in the popularity of two nonproprietary protocols, the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Her move is emblematic of the period, as the major shift in the technology via its popularity made it more lightweight and affordable, allowing composers and musicians the freedom to move from using institutional studios to their home or personal studios.
Now there has been a cultural shift in the British left, led by the popularity of veteran activist Jeremy Corbyn, Bouattia may come to symbolise yet another symptom of the growing distrust of leaders who play the political game, in favour of those who take their fight on to the streets.
"We have since seen a shift in the demographic as Bump gained popularity," says Sadie Bascom.
