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It's rebellious and against "The Man" and against elites and against high falutin people in general.

I don't know if it directly takes on the fact that Southern economic and political elites tried to focus the resentment of poor whites onto poor blacks, sometimes failed at this, but often succeeded.

For example, Southern Rock could have had several songs which were pro-labor unions. Instead, in the 1970s, I think it was viewed as supporting the easier narrative of being against the federal government and against bureaucrats and against "liberals" who try to tell us what to do. May have been an inaccurate perception, but I think it was often viewed as feeding into this narrative.

But what if it was different?
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