 Keith later felt pigeonholed. He told Billboard that he didn't want to seem like this Captain America right wing lunatic. And I didn't know this, but he was actually a registered Democrat at the time that he wrote the song. He did come to regret that, although it's obvious why he was pigeonholed as this Captain America, because courtesy of the red, white and blue, the angry America, you know, released in the wake of 9-11. It's we're going to get revenge. We're going to put a boot up your ass. It's the American way.