Hillbillies like Mitchell have operated pretty much with impunity because 1) most of the backwater US is racist as fuck 2) media attention on stuff like this is few and far between. This is one of the few times when you can say, god bless the internet for shining a light on racist twats like this

Sometimes I see a headline like this and think... there must be some kind of wrinkle in the fuller story to complicate this tidy narrative. Surely there must be more to this story than the headline indicates.

This is not one of those times.