Back in the early 80's my band played in a bar in West Virginia with chicken net in front of the stage and confederate flags and pro south stuff everywhere.
We won a battle of the bands contest at WVU and the bar owner asked us to come play his 'lil ole joint" as he called it. The pay was allot more than our usual so we jumped on it instantly.

There was more people wearing skoal & various similar style hats, patriotic confederate flag t-shirts and hats everywhere, trucks with loaded shotgun racks.
The DJ was playing Country music while we were setting up and they screaming and yelling a very rowdy crowd fights the whole works. We were like man how did we end up in this joint. We played nothing but hard rock and funk that night they loved us. WHAT A RELIEF man-o-man they keep saying 'MAN YOU BROTHERS CAN ROCK HARD" buying food & rounds for us. They only got rowdier while we playing but never once did we get anything negative vibes towards us but it was hard to feel completely comfortable in that setting of confederate flag wearing folks. We played free bird and someone even pulled out a confederate flag and was waving it around. The owner gave us a tip and wanted us to play there once a month for the next 3 months, well we decided do not judge a book by its cover and we did it and couple of times the next summer (with the tip plus our pay it was one of our better playing gigs). We never had any issues but it was just damn hard to feel completely safe in that setting. Looking back now I know how guys playing the Chitlin' circuit must have felt back in the 50's and 60's.

We always made sure we had a full tank of gas before we reach this club never want to stop in that area. LOL