I think my local country music station is run by Dems

[southerngirlwriter]

There's a certain very pro-Dem song that's on the air constantly. Every time I turn on the radio or start my car, there it is!

This is happening a little too often to be coincidental or the normal course of airplay, I think.

Lyrics:

Song of the South

Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There ain't nobody looking back again

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that

Well somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a gonna save us all

Well momma got sick and daddy got down
The county got the farm and they moved to town
Pappa got a job with the TVA
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet
Song, song of the south...
Gone, gone with the wind...

Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

Pretty cool, eh? :D

[southerngirlwriter]

1. a kick for some good news!!

:kick:

[LoZoccolo]

2. A lot of alternative country has left-wing themes.

Jemerson Mosley, for instance!

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/jemersonmosleymusic.htm

I've heard some Bottle Rockets too that has lyrics about right-wing talk show hosts and taking down the Confederate flag.

[muffin_man]

3. Little back ground on the song/group

The artist are the hugely successful country group"Alabama" (from Ft.Payne)


For many years, Alabama has championed and supported worthy causes, both in the national arena and in their local community of Fort Payne, Ala. In 1989, Owen and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., established the "Country Cares" fundraiser. The "Country Cares" radio network currently boasts over 160 stations nationwide. The country music industry embraced the cause, and through the combined efforts of the radiothon and other industry functions, "Country Cares" has raised a staggering $130 million for St. Jude. In 1997, Alabama participated in the recording of Country Cares for Kids, a holiday album to benefit the hospital. The band members have made countless appearances on the hospital's behalf.


Very cool!:)

[Maddy McCall]

4. That's not indicative of a Democratic radio station...

it IS indicative of the fact that the band Alabama knows that the South was solidly Democratic until the Civil Rights Movement.

My Dad said his family never lived as well as they did during the Depression. His father was a share cropper who got a job in the CCC, and the family actually had better income during the Depression than before or after it. They loved Roosevelt.