# Left-wing country & western music?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-wing-country-western-music/186152>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 4, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-wing-country-western-music/186152 "2003-07-04T00:34:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![king\_of\_spain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7cd45c/32.png) [@king\_of\_spain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/king_of_spain)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-wing-country-western-music/186152/61 "2003-07-20T18:39:37Z")

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After thinking of this some, it’s occurred to me that if you consider feminism a leftie movement, there’s quite a few country songs by female artists with a feminist message. The best-known one lately is the Dixie Chicks’ “Goodbye, Earl” (although that combines a feminist anti-domestic violence\* theme with a more familiar right-wing country "some people just need killin’ " attitude), but there’s also, for instance, “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” by Mary Chapin-Carpenter, and lots more.

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-wing-country-western-music/186152/62 "2003-07-26T14:17:28Z")

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Listen to some of Hoyt Axton’s music

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**Author:** ![sagacis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@sagacis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sagacis)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/left-wing-country-western-music/186152/63 "2003-07-26T18:23:59Z")

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[Merle Haggard](http://www.merlehaggard.com/HagEdit.shtml) seems to have changed his views from the days of “Okie from Muskogee”.

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> I don’t even know the Dixie chicks, but I find it an insult for all the men and women who fought and died in past wars when almost the majority of America jumped down their throats for voicing an opinion. It was like a verbal witch-hunt and lynching. Whether I agree with their comments or not has no bearing. … As a country we need to look inward for the answers to the energy of the future. We need to bring down our demands for oil, rebuild some bridges and highways and allow the farmers to grow something that replenishes the soil. Those who don’t know what that is, should do some research. The problem is not in Iraq and the answers are not in Iran. I hope were not buried alive beneath this pending financial collapse if the pipeline doesn’t get through. Surely everything doesn’t depend on oil!

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