Brad Paisley was born in 1972.
A friend of his had a cross burned in his front yard for asking out the homecoming queen...in the mid-to-late 1980s? Were things really that bad in West Virginia back then? Or are we talking about poetic license?
To me, country and western means names like Skeeter Davis, the Statler Brothers, Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Milsap, etc.
And those politicians say things like:
“ I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”