Southern music and culture is an emotional issue for me.
I'm an Appalachian-American who stays up nights thinking about Blair Mountain, which is an endangered historic site:
http://www.friendsofblairmountain.org/(Watch John Sayles' 'Matewan' to see the historic importance)
And yeah, all my schoolmates revered Lynyrd Skynyrd, including the black kids. Can we get over the racial issues long enough to understand that some of the oldest mountains in the world are under threat, and there are few advocates for them because the people who live there are mostly elderly and poor?