Ding! The Left....let’s face it....is and has long been dominated by the Northeastern Establishment (think Ivy League). These are Yankees. They H.A.T.E. the South and Southerners and always have. They simply cannot bear the idea that life in the South or that race relations were marked by anything other than cruelty and unremitting hatred. That blows up their entire narrative about the South and could even spill over into politics with Blacks not being nearly so beholden to the Democrat Party. That, they must oppose with full force.
So anything that cuts against their narrative will be demonized to the hilt.
Now your northern n*****'s a negro
You see he's got his dignity
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the n***** free
Yes he's free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he's free to be put in a cage
On the South Side of Chicago
And the West Side
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Hough in Cleveland
And he's free to be put in a cage
In East St. Louis
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Fillmore in San Francisco
And he's free to be put in a cage
In Roxbury in Boston
They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around
Keepin' the n*****s down
Randy Newman (Rednecks)