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That's true, and as much as I enjoy Lynyrd Skynyrd, southern rock had its day and more or less went out with the reminants of segregation and Jim Crow. I live in the South and I love Dixie and I love "Sweet Home Alabama," but would that song go over today like it did then? I doubt it. But who knows. Maybe if Duane Allman and Ronnie Van Zant didn't die, it might have been different, but alas...
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Well, it was a hit in the movie "Con Air," leading the nutty Graham Green character to say, "Define Irony? A bunch of a-holes on an airplane singing a song by a band that died in a plane crash."
I think you are a decade or two off on that one. Sothern Rock had its heyday in the late 1970s and by then, Jim Crow and segregation was a distant memory. Frankly, I've never connected the two. Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, Bad Company, .38 Special, ZZ Top, Charlie Daniels Band, all of those bands bring back a lot of good memories from my youth. Nothing racist about them.
Would Sweet Home Alabama go over as well today? Why not? They still play the heck out of it all over the radio today.