What do rural Americans think about this music video?

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This is a question I always wanted to ask someone from the rural part of the USA:
Does this clip of Cotton Eye Joe by Swedish Euro Country-Dance group Rednex contain some shred of truth? Or has its content merely sprung from some flight of fancy from a European perspective?
Assuming that this music video really represents rural American culture, what part of the U.S. is such behavior mostly common practice in, and how much has that custom become less common or relevant?

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It's heavily exaggerated, that's not how anybody dresses or maybe ever dressed. It reminds me of an incredibly corny farm-based porno. Also, is that a dude getting lynched towards the beginning? Wtf?

Interestingly, the song itself is actually a really old folk song. And it was not meant for parties.

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In the comment section below the video many users wrote that this is how they picture the South to themselves, but I myself would rather associate it with the West.

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Also, is that a dude getting lynched towards the beginning? Wtf?

LOL what? I have never noticed that. Timestamp @ 0:35.

Interestingly, the song itself is actually a really old folk song. And it was not meant for parties.

I didn't even know that, bit it isn't even astonishing to me.
There so many modern pop songs that sample old country and folk songs, also in Europe. The countrymen from earlier generations seemed to have some great sense and taste for catchy and/or melancholic melodies.

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Here's authentic video of rural America in the 1970s

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Okay, it seems I was utterly mistaken about the "vibes" in the clip. I always associated that kind kind of overexuberant and voluptuary "culture" mostly with the Wild West, since I thought the South, at least the deep South, had always been too Christian-conservative for such "barn festivals". I moreover mostly associate West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee with country music, and also the rural parts of the Rust Belt (former country star Taylor Swift comes from Pennsylvania), and also the westernmost parts of Texas and Oklahoma, which are de facto part of the West.