Montgomery boat brawl, Jason Aldean, and trying that in a small town - Vox

That's why the Montgomery brawl was, on a level, a brilliant deconstruction of the lie behind "Try That in a Small Town": It effortlessly destroyed the song's flimsily veiled conceit that the "community" that needs protection is that of innocent white people being besieged by scary Black protesters.…

https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/8/11/23827919/montgomery-alabama-riverboat-dock-brawl-black-resistance-jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town