Southern Man - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young live @ Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA on Dec. 4, 1988. This song addresses racism in the American South, referencing slavery and the Ku Klux Klan. Although Young claimed the song was more about the civil rights movement than the South specifically, many Southern individuals took offense to the generalization. In his 2012 biography Waging Heavy Peace, Young apologized for the song, stating: "I don't like my words when I listen to it. They are accus