Will Wilkinson reflects on country music as ideology: 

The emotional highlights of the low-openness life are going to be the type celebrated in "One Boy, One Girl" [above]: the moment of falling in love with "the one," the wedding day, the birth of one's children (though I guess the song is about a surprising ultrasound). More generally, country music comes again and again to the marvel of advancing through life's stations, and finds delight in experiencing traditional familial and social relationships from both sides. Once I was a girl with a mother, now I'm a mother with a girl. My parents took care of me, and now I take care of them. ...

Country music is a bulwark against cultural change, a reminder that "what you see is what you get," a means of keeping the charge of enchantment in "the little things" that make up the texture of the every day, and a way of literally broadcasting the emotional and cultural centrality of the conventional big-ticket experiences that make a life a life.

Dreher internalizes this notion: