From a reader in my favorite state:

“Dear Mr. Derbyshire— I see that you have some commentary on ‘Radio Derb’ about Neil Young. I can’t listen to it right now as I am currently at work but I though you might like to know what the 70’s southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd had to say in regards to Mr. Young in their song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’.
“Well I heard mister Young sing about her Well, I heard ole Neil put her down Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow
“This refrain was a rebuttal to Neil Young’s song ‘Southern Man’. Looks like Skynyrd had Neil Young pegged thirty years ago. Certainly we in the south don’t need him around, and I can’t imagine that the rest of the country does either. Love your columns and ‘Radio Derb’. Keep up the good work.”

[Derb] Thank you, Sir. I’ll confess to having had a passing infatuation with Neil Young’s music a quarter century ago. But really, if he wants to put America to rights, how come after ***forty years*** he hasn’t at least taken out citizenship?.