His popularity waned and he found a home in the radical right side of country music.
And for any assholes that comment, "It's all like that!", no it ain't. It's now mostly formulaic dreck out of Nashville, just like Christian music.
Country was pretty good in the day, and we don't have to go back to Old Hank. Reba, Jackson, Parton, Hank Jr., Rogers, all of them sang hard hitting songs about real people. thier lives and struggles. And if you put on Don't Take the Girl, I'll cry my eyes out. Don't you do it!