My interpretation of the two songs that Neil Young wrote that were scoffed was that he was condemning all "southern men" or the south in general, notably Alabama. Not all southerners are KKK and not all hate blacks or owned slaves. Neil went overboard in his idealogical songs and pissed some people off. If I lived 5 miles south of where I was from, I'd have been born a "southerner" by Civil War standards, and Neil can stuff it if he's going to try to lay blame on me for what happened hundreds of years ago. Skynyrd rocks. They were party animals...but what rock band of the 70s wasn't? And I hear it as, "a southern man don't need HIM around anyhow....". I think the song is about a bunch of boys who love their home. "Now Mussel Shoals has got the Swampers...they been known to pick a song or two..Lord they get me off so much...they pick me up when I'm feelin' blue..."