Worse than that, they apparently just assumed she was conservative (I guess because she apparently moved to TN before starting her "music" career), and are so horribly offended because they feel betrayed, or something.
Remember that when you see some of them complaining about the evils of tribalism in politics.
As you might already know, I'm a huge Leon Russell fan, and a producer of an old classic concert video of his from 1972.
That wasn't tooting my horn, just mentioning it because Leon was an old Okie from a group of people who created "The Tulsa Sound" and he later moved to the Nashville, Tennessee area. People assumed it was because he was getting closer to his country roots, but the reality was he was treated rather poorly in Oklahoma after he married Mary McCreary.
He sold off his sprawling estate at Grand Lake of the Cherokees in Disney, Oklahoma after being subjected to some rather nasty treatment by the locals.
Even his early mentor, Jerry Lee Lewis, was overheard saying, "Well, that ole Leon, he was alright till he married that nigger."
His final home in Hermitage, TN is now for sale.
Take a look inside, does that look like the home of a conservative to you?
The last thing Leon said publicly before suffering the heart attack that took him from us was that if Trump got elected, we should all move to Canada. That shocked a lot of his fans, and sent waves of indignation through the community but people who were close to him always knew he had no love for the political Right. He wasn't an overly political guy for the most part, and seldom made his views public.
He wasn't what you would term a "leftist" either...note his absence from over a decade and a half of liberal political activism during his heyday in the 1970's.
But his disaffection for conservatives stems all the way back from being mistreated over his hair, which he finally grew out as a statement, leaving behind the old slicked back pompadour from the 50's/60's.
