![]() There the vocalist takes a condescending tone towards the “Southern man” in terms of his racist tendencies. ChorusĪnd the above is especially true when you also take the chorus into consideration. Now for instance in the second verse when the vocalist alludes a Southern Blackman being lynched due to dating a White woman, of course we know what the lynching of Black people, in the South in particular, persisted even beyond the days of slavery, such as during the Jim Crow era. And it is obvious, even if the lyrics are overgeneralized, that the intended point Neil is putting forth is that the racism which defined American slavery in still very much extant in the southern part of the country, where said institution was most pronounced.īut that said, slavery itself had been illegal in the United States for over a century before this song was dropped. So it is understandable why the direct references to that socioeconomic system may have upset some Southerners. This was the century when American slavery was still very much in effect. However, historically speaking the lyrics are set more in, shall we say the 19 th century.
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