Opinion: Ron Hart: In praise of Jason Aldean and small town America
The fashionable “worries” they latch onto help them virtue signal that they are better than the rest of us.
Jason Aldean’s country song “Try That in a Small Town” really got the left spun up. This is a simple song; the music video was filmed in front of our beautiful courthouse in my hometown of Columbia, Tennessee. Columbia is great, diverse town, 67% White, 18% Black and about 10% Hispanic. When I was growing up there, everyone got along. It is not some racist small town like the left has implied.
Maybe we were naïve, but you certainly cannot do that with rap songs or Cardi B’s “WAP.” Yet somehow “Try That in a Small Town” got banned by CMT? Really? Atlanta, New York and L.A. are examples of big cities gone bad. They are filled with people who moved there because they think they are too good for their small hometown. Not a one of them has refrained from showing some arrogance when joking about small towns. And notably, those very cities are falling apart from decades of one- party Democrat rule. Not only are there a lot of small towns, there are sparsely populated big states with a lot of land like Wyoming and Montana. The U.S.
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