In the early 2000s, no one listened to country music in the Northeast. Among blue-blooded Yankees, country music was looked down upon, and there were serious negative stereotypes about the genre and the South, more generally. Country music was for the backward hicks and yokels who lived in the boonies. Country music was for the guys in cut-off denim jackets with Confederate flag bumper stickers on the back of their rusted Chevys. Country music was for gauche people with horrible taste.
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