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It’s Saturday night in Laughlin, Nevada, a resort town about 90 miles south of Las Vegas, and Jason Aldean is about to introduce the song that most everyone has come to hear. “I told you guys earlier we put out a brand new album last year called Highway Desperado, right?” …

If you really want to understand where Jason Aldean‘s “Try That in a Small Town” comes from, you have to go all the way back to Richard Nixon —and before that, George Wallace. Wallace, a former Alabama governor and segregationist independent candidate for president in 1968, got significant support from …