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Why would you hear it Alabama? You’re already home.
big deal
No one in Alabama can afford one of them thair new-fangled radios.
Yeee haaaw!
Come here Cousin LouAnne and plant one on me!
But uncle daddy said I can’t cheat on him no more.
That’s right! Your sister can’t, ‘neither. Now go tell mommy gramma that I want ta talk to ‘er privatly. In my bedroom. And if ya hear screams, ‘gnore it, we’re just doin’ a ho down.
Oh I’m ready for that ho down’ YEEHA!
Mom? Dad? Grandma? Is that you?
This is a joke right? The few years I spent in the hell they call University of Alabama, I heard that song at least 5 times a day every day. Hearing the opening makes my eyes twitch now.
There are skools in Alabama? Aunt Mom told me there werent.
You do know that Huntsville AL has the highest number of PHDs per capita, right?
Maybe you should stop being a bigot.
I don’t think he is being a bigot. However, historically, Alabama is one of the five most disgustingly racist and bigoted states in the nation. It’s as red as they get.
HAHAHA ‘bigot’! You must live in Alabama and have never looked up the word ‘bigot’ in a dictionary. The guy just made a joke about schools and you gave a stat about PhD’s. Didn’t even say they got them there to counter his silly ’skools’ statement. You can’t even debate correctly.
Yes, exactly. I live in Huntsville, AL. Most everyone here is an engineer or a rocket scientist. (Thats why they call it Rocket City) I hear this song all the time on the radio on my way to school.
I live in Huntsville, AL, and listening to the radio, I hear it about once a week. However, Huntsville is different from the rest of Alabama. When I drive to Birmingham, i usually hear it at least once per trip.
You hear it at least 11 times every Alabama football game. Its our unofficial fight song.
I’m with you, MonGoos. Maybe it depended on which radio stations were listened to the most (or maybe in which part of the state one lived) but I swear it was almost impossible to avoid hearing it at least once a day. I was only in Alabama for four or five months and that was nineteen years ago but I still automatically change the station whenever I hear that song come on. Blek.
As an Alabamian, I can vouch for this.
This is true for Ohio as well. WEBN in Cincinnati, Ohio plays this no less than five times a week.
I think that all depends on WHERE in Ohio, because the Canton/Akron area rock stations play it ALL the time.
In Maine, you’re constantly hearing this song.
True about Maine, but false re: Alabama. I lived in the Florida panhandle right by the AL border for several months and heard this song on the Bama rock station a few times a day.
i was gonna say the ohio one should be all the up also. when i lived in columbus i heard that song probably everyday. and in cleveland now i hear itr almost as much. if you’re near a college you’re going to hear it constantly.
Strangley enough WOFX here in Cincinnati, which in the city’s classic hard rock station, hardley ever plays Skynard. Instead they play alot of Frampton, since he lives around Cincinnati.
I think it just depends on which part of the state you’re from. I live in the southwest portion and I hear it fairly often.
While I’m from the NE corner of Alabama and I hear it maybe once a week, usually on friday night.
I dunno. In Georgia, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is played like every hour.
Yes, and as someone who lives on the line between Georgia and Alabama, you hear both songs constantly. I want to know where in Alabama the OP has been that they don’t play the song.
This kills me. That would kill me. UGH!
Hey Maw! get off the dang roof!
Some folk’ll never eat a skunk
But then again, some folk’ll…
Like Cletus
The slack-jawed yokel.
Most folk’ll never lose a toe
And then again, some folk’ll…
Like Cletus
The slack-jawed yokel.
There you goes back where you was, to wait for a woman of less discriminatin’ taste.
What’s the difference between “once in a while” and “not that often”?
“Once in a while” means that you hear the song occasionaly (about once every three days) while “not that often” means once about every two to three weeks.
It’s all relative, though, isn’t it?
Depends on where you are in Maine. I think WABK (Augusta) plays it at least twice a day — once in the morning and once in the afternoon, and always when I’m stuck in traffic near Wiscasst.
Screw you people and your lame stereotypes.
^
Seconded.
Screw you people and your tightassedness (and no i don’t care if that isn’t a real word.) It’s just humor, and even if it isn’t, I’m from Arkansas. Ever seen Deliverance? Yeah, that Sh*t follows me everywhere. It doesn’t bother me, in fact i think it’s funny that people are so caught up on what the media calls the south. so lighten up, ok?
I would think you’d get more flak for being the home of Bill Clinton and the Presidential Blow-Job rather than Deliverance, which took place in South Carolina/Georgia. Not that there’s NOT redneck hicks in Arkansas, I’m just sayin’.
How does ‘every single time’ function on that Y-axis? Every single time you what? Flush the toilet?
Every single time you’re listening to the radio in Maine, douchebag. As a Mainer, I can vouch for this. Litteraly every single time I listen to the radio this song is on.
funny thing is, i live in virginia and everyone YEHAWS and cheers when we hear “sweet home alabama”
and when i got other places and no one cheers when that song comes on, it’s weird, lmao.
You’re obviously not from northern VA. I swear, it’s a different state up here…
haha youre very right. im in south central va.
I spent 4 miserable years in Mon’gumry, AL – they play it every day. Now I live in Arkansas and don’t even listen to the radio. It’s the law that any rock radio station in a former Confederate state has to play a Lynard Skynard song every hour.
It a law in Maine that a radio station must play Sweet Home Alabama once every day to remind ourselves that we won the Civil War.
Don’t ask me, I don’t think it makes sense either.
What do you mean ‘Former’?
As an Idahoan, I can totally vouch for it being played more than it should be here. And people cheer. And it’s obnoxious.
Also, wolf-killers suck. We’re not all crazy, right-wing, Limbaugh-fellaters around here. Just puttin’ it out there.
I live in Maine, and I NEVER hear that song. I love that song! But all I ever hear is the stupid Kid rock version (uber suckage)
I’m a Mainer also. I have heard that song so many times. 105 TOS plays it nonstop.
Wait, someone went to Idaho? Why would they do that?
To see places that were in Napoleon Dynamite.
This song was written and performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd (who were from Florida) in response to Neil Young’s “Southern Man”. “Southern Man” is a socially-conscious song that expresses anger over the lack of change in the south more than 100 years after abolition. “Sweet Home Alabama” is about, as far as I can tell, how awesome Skynyrd thought lynchings were.
Can anyone tell me why “Sweet Home ALABAMA” is used in commercials for KENTUCKY Fried Chicken? Is it because they both suck really, really hard?
That drives me crazy, too. It’s not Alabama Fried Chicken.
Well Ohio has their own song. Too bad its about the Kent State shootings.
In California you could probably find the song California Love on the rap stations once a day.
I heard that song far more frequently in two years of living in Idaho than twenty of living in the South.
So sad.
Then again, I never heard ‘God Blessed Texas’ anywhere *but* Texas. Weird. 
Why would anyone want to go to Iowa??
maybe for some beers.
I’d go anywhere i’ll find a beer. LOL
cuz thats where slipknots from?
I’m hearing this song right now.
In my head.
GET IT OUT.
lol if you heard it in alabama it would be like being mocked
sweet home? really!? my dads also my half brother!
i just found out my great grandparents were cousins o_o
YOU CLEARLY DONT LIVE IN IOWA…. ITS NEVER PLAYED…
They play the full 15 minute version or the PoS 3 minute radio version? They play it all the time here, but that’s because Lynyrd Skynyrd is from here.
I just happened to be listening to Sweet Home Alabama when I scrolled down to this.
Coincidence?
I grew up in Maine and I can confirm this phenomenon. The penchant for Maine Rednecks to love the hell out of country-western music is puzzling at best. Sometimes they sing this one as “Sweet Home Aroostook” or other Maine county. My high school graduation song and prom song were both by Garth Brooks.
Actually I’ve heard it once in a while.
FAIL!! I hear this song constantly on the local classic rock radio – I’ve heard it so many times it makes me nauseous and queasy now. I used to think it was a decent song. Now that I’m stationed in Alabama and I’ve heard the song over and over and over again, I refuse to listen to it just based on the sheer fact that it’s simply been played too much for my taste.
Uhh guys I’ve got to disagree with this chart in the extreme. I live in Alabama. I remember one day a radiostation dedicated an entire day to this song…No other artists, songs….or even commercials
I agree. This chart was CLEARLY not made by anybody who has ever lived in Alabama, or even spent one day in the state. Epic fail!!
Why don’t you ever go to states with more consonants than vowels?
Being from the Birmingham area, I’m a little appalled at all of these Alabama stereotypes. I thought people had finally moved past the “I’m a redneck weeyith a therdd grayed edukayshun” stereotypes. It’s really not that bad of a place to live. I’m not saying there aren’t a lot of problems in some places (there are), but there are also some really nice places to live in Alabama. Ever heard of Mountain Brook?
Leighton,
I agree with you fully. I’m from Alabama and while there have been times in my life I couldn’t wait to get the hell out of here, it’s still home (I was abroad this summer and after 6 weeks I couldn’t wait to come home!)
I can’t stand people making such terrible stereotypes about it.
Yes, many people are poor and can’t afford higher education. Yes, many people are very religious. There are still racists in the “backwoods” areas, just like in every state (including some of these others mentioned in the graph, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa… many people who live “out in the country” in those states are just as racist as country people in Alabama).
But that doesn’t make it a terrible place to live. I graduated from Auburn University in Auburn, AL, recently and if these jackasses knew anything, they’d know that Auburn has a great engineering school and has produced several Astronauts. Our architecture school is one of the top 10 in the country as well. Just because they have these ridiculous stereotypes about us doesn’t mean they’re at all true. Get a clue people!
i live in ny, and i miss Alabama so much
what I want to know is, why is he in all these states across the country from each other often enough to know this?
Nooooot true. I live in Alabama, and I swear to god, I hear it almost every week on the radio… at least three times…
I’m ready to shoot the guys who put it on the air.
Is that a cat on top of Maine?
Maybe if you listen to nothing but hip-hop stations or something. I live in Alabama, and I hear it quite often.
Guys, try not to judge ALL Alabamians just because there are a lot of racists/inbreds here. We’re not all like that. Just a slight majority. =)
lol, FL should be top-of-chart.
i totally agree. i think i heard it twice in the 9 years i lived in Alabama.
i hear it about twice a day in New York. Damn DJs