Conrad, you are adding your voice to the growing attack on anything that isn't associated with right-wing politics by your accusations. You claim to be neutral but in fact by your politicizing you are enabling these kinds of attacks. You are beginning to sound like
Joe McCarthy.

You are generalizing without a real knowledge of the relationship between folk music,
the left-wing movement, the Southern reaction, the folk revival in the popular music field
because the blanket statements that you are making are simplistic at best and false at worst.

If it wasn't for Pete Seeger introducing Earl Scruggs style of banjo playing in New York,
the devotees of bluegrass would not have grown so fast. Pete did more to celebrate the
Southern banjo styles in the rest of the country than almost anyone except for his late half brother Mike. Pete has never been partisan when it came to American folk music. That idea is just plain wrong.