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“Yes, I’m a cowboy, redneck, right-wing conservative, Republican, all of that,” he said.

There was a breakdown with a character called Hurley, and he was listed as something along the lines of a 50-year-old redneck.

Michael Trotter Jr. told me that “when you have artists standing onstage yelling about redneck culture, you know they’re not talking to you.”

Harvesting road kill and dumping it in Central Park as a prank, he said, might have been “a little bit of the redneck in me.”

A self-described “educated redneck,” Luke was one of 11 Tennesseans with widely divergent views on gun rights selected by the project to discuss potential recommendations to reduce gun violence.