Blue states are just a guilty of it too, albeit to appease an imaginary “center” and “core mission”.
(I am referring to my own experience as a participant in a blue state in a red county.)
The local library has banned a Santa meet and greet, a gingerbread house/peeps contest, and a certain local author meet and greet for being controversial, or “woke”. My opinion is that any library needs a certain level of “marketing/co-marketing” to bring patrons in, and doesn’t have to be 100% “about books, STEAM, and literacy”, but as a catalyst for them.
