"Sweet Home, Alabama" is a Southern good ol' boys torch song where they praise Governor George Wallace and get mad at another white dude for calling out white racists, how is "Sweet Caroline" possibly a serious contender for whitest song ever
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No its intended to be a reference that northerners have their own issues.
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When I looked it up before, that seemed to be a common interpretation. one of the band members in this article says that was his intention but maybe not everyone’s. Granted, he may also be changing his story.https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676863591/sweet-home-alabama-lynyrd-skynyrd-southern-discomfort-american-anthem …
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California was reliably republican back then. California voted for Nixon all three times he ran, including 1960, when Kennedy beat him. To some extent, Nixon WAS California's fault.
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Sweet Home Alabama was a diss track against Neil Young for writing "Southern Man". Blaming Neil Young for Nixon is stupid because he's Canadian anyway but nobody ever accused Lynryd Skynyrd of being brain geniuses.
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