At the peak of her fame, Loretta Lynn was part of a key change in the politics of country music — one that helped propel Republicans Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and both Bushs to the presidency.
Of course, the senior Bush had spent much of 1988 doing his best to earn Lynn's description, getting photographed driving a truck and professing his deep love of deep-fried pork rinds.
If the Woodstock Nation opposed the Vietnam War while backing civil rights and radical lifestyles, the Nashville sound was in tune with traditional American social norms. Country music artists seemed to be circling the wagons in defense of America as they – and their fans – remembered it. He was, of course, from a wealthy family in New York. But he had created a tough businessman character on a reality TV show and was able to translate that into a"tell it like it is" political persona as a candidate. He also made a show of embracing the pop culture tastes and social attitudes of blue-collar America, especially those of rural working-class whites.
For generations, those voters had been the bedrock of the Democratic Party. In the South, the Democratic Party had been the dominant political identity since before the Civil War. With the Great Depression and the New Deal in the 1930s, Democrats had greater appeal in the rest of rural America, even while remaining strongest in the rural South. Franklin D. Roosevelt attained the status of a saint.George Vecsey, the, reports that Lynn inherited some of that reverence from her father.
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