What does Tim McGraw`s song, Southern Voice, mean?
Tim McGraw reminds us that there are many ‘Southern Voices.’ He sings them all. By David Masciotra Brechtbug Sidewalk graffiti advertisement for Tim McGraw, found near the corner of 6th Avenue and 4th Street in SOHO, New York City. It’s a cliché among liberals to look at the rural American South with snobbery and scorn, condemning an entire region to some Deliverance-stereotype. Bill Maher devotes a few minutes during every episode of his weekly talk show “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO (currently on break) to ridiculing the South. The arbitrators of established truth, such as the New York Times, dedicate hours to studying what makes the South “the way it is.” A writer for the liberal magazine Mother Jones recently said his notion of Southern culture was “redacted on advice of my frontal lobe.” Left-leaning outsiders have mistreated the South for decades and I could go on with my protests. But instead, I think we should turn to an unlikely and unassuming critic, a country superstar
