I live in Southern California most of the time, and I got so dang frustrated with illegals streaming across the border, and that was the year of the riots in Los Angeles and all that kind of stuff. And, you know, I got to a point where I couldn't sit silently anymore. And so I wrote a song from my heart called We Must Take America Back.

The first few weeks it was out, but then a funny thing happened. Some of the most powerful, some of the most influential country radio stations in the big city said, hey, look, we don't care where it is on the charts. These city slickers. We don't care how many requests we get for it. We're not going to play it because we don't agree with it. And that was the end of my RCA career.