about $1300. >> reporter: chris van meter, a purple heart recipient, survived a roadside bomb in iraq and forced to refinance his home to repay $46,000 in bonuses. >> thousands of soldiers paying money back. >> reporter: ryan who served in iraq refused to pay. >> i felt totally betrayed. >> reporter: they waived his bonus repayment, but he's not dropping the case for the sake of his fellow soldiers. abc news, new york. all right. thanks. unbelievable in some cases, the california national guard tells abc news it's waived repayment of $37 million of those bonuses, but many have already repaid them. >> many are continuing to pay them. some who, one particular woman rent payment or car payment every month to the army, $650 a month. >> that's the hard part. those who counted on this money after factoring into the day-to-day payments. coming up, the self-proclaimed liberal redneck who's become a viral sensation. >> yeah. he is shaking up the notion of being both liberal and a redneck. you're watching "world news

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? tell me, why they have to go and make things so complicated ? ? i see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated ? >> oh, a little avril levine on a monday. what could go wrong with the world? >> and frustrated. >> yeah. >> good topic to go into politics. >> no argument this election has been complicated and crazy.

of economic problems, now backing donald trump while many urban republicans back hillary clinton. >> and now a man introducing a new type of political affiliation has become a viral sensation as a self-proclaimed liberal redneck. we're "up all nightline" with abc's david wright. >> not about to let some [ bleep ] facts how they feel about stuff. >> reporter: that's the liberal red neck, a youtube phenomena, in part because he's unexpected. >> a tragic hair spray accident. >> i didn't think there was a such a thing as a libera redneck. >> i get that all the time on the internet, a person going, you know, you're like a unicorn. i'm a poor white trash redneck from the middle of nowhere in tennessee. i'm also a well-educated, well-traveled godless liberal. >> reporter: a rebel yell across the partisan divide. >> the south cooks better

other region in the country, so to act like we bring nothing to the table culturally is some fake liberal hit critical [ bleep ]. >> reporter: we met up with trey at his childhood home in clay county, tennessee, which has fallen on hard times. >> this used to be a osh kosh factory, a clothing factory.. they made overalls and stuff like that. it moved to mexico, and took how many hundreds of jobs with it, and that was it. >> reporter: most of the shops on selina's main street are gone, too. what was this? >> this used to be a barber shop. >> reporter: the few shops that are still open are consignment stores, people selling off treasures to pay the bills. and there are storefront churches, the towns people here, clearly praying for a savior. walking around selina here today, you get a sense of what's

they feel like nobody cares, and they are bitter about it, and donald trump makes him believe that he does, though. >> reporter: if trump should lose -- >> that did not work out last time. people won't be happy if and when she wins, but they'll go back to this. i would like to think that it will get better, but i don't believe it no matter who wins. >> reporter: he feels he'll choose the less her of two evils, an important choice, but he's not getting his hopes up too high. >> run to canada. guys, we got to go, thank you so much. >> and trey now has more than 94,000 subscribers on his youtube channel. >> they have quite a few followers. they've gone on a comedy tour in order to reclaim the term "redneck." >> and they have a book, "the liberal red nick manifesto."

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