[HiTech RedNeck]

It sure seems interesting. There’s a big enough lefty presence in the “country music” audience that some performers are getting cold feet.

But what does this mean. Is this a conflicted, love-hate relationship? Faux country can be as lefty as it wants because it doesn’t have to run a farm, drive semi trucks, etc. But real country has a way of rebuking that. Do these lefties want the redneck panache without putting in the effort of being a humble redneck?

Anyhow, these performers seem too pretty to be true, sometimes. If they were from out on a ranch they’d be weathered looking. They look like city boys fresh from the western wear store.

[ScottinVA]

Faux country can be as lefty as it wants because it doesn’t have to run a farm, drive semi trucks

Back in the day, we used to call fake cowboys, "drugstore cowboys."

[pepsi_junkie]

It sure seems interesting. There’s a big enough lefty presence in the “country music” audience that some performers are getting cold feet.

A lot of modern country music is just pop music with a different beat structure and no synthesizers. It's why someone like Taylor Swift could so effortlessly switch between genres. It's been good for the genre economically, sales are booming. But it brings in a lot of lefties.

I know this because I live in the Northeast, I know many urban fans of country music and I know they are lefties.

[Eagles6]

Faux country is right.