@Proteus' wife I really like how you tried to tear apart the song and instead just proved its point. The basis of these lyrics is to highlight how the South DOES suffer from these issues like many other places do, but in the South, it is very frequently buried under the idyllic dream and perception of a white picket fence, happy family, married with children, etc, when this isn't really the case at all. It's just a precedent and trope that we almost always see in country music, and her song is a subversion of that trope.
@Proteus' wife I really like how you tried to tear apart the song and instead just proved its point. The basis of these lyrics is to highlight how the South DOES suffer from these issues like many other places do, but in the South, it is very frequently buried under the idyllic dream and perception of a white picket fence, happy family, married with children, etc, when this isn't really the case at all. It's just a precedent and trope that we almost always see in country music, and her song is a subversion of that trope.