Leanne has written a neat piece for Salon.com that’s worth checking out.
To quote Leanne:
“Redneck culture has been edging toward a major comeback for a while, and it has seeped way beyond the Southern states; there’s a ranch-owning Texan in the White House, a much-ballyhooed “Dukes of Hazzard” feature film headed for theaters and a NASCAR track planned for New York. Crossover divas are out; the New South of Shania Twain and GOP-lite Democrats like Al Gore is over. The Old South of Bo Bice, the Lynyrd Skynyrd-esque runner-up on ‘American Idol,’ and conservative Republicans like Bill Frist is the new new thing.”