Start United States USA — Science The Dixie Chicks Drop ‘Dixie’ From Their Name

The Dixie Chicks Drop ‘Dixie’ From Their Name

258
0
TEILEN

‘We want to meet this moment,’ the platinum-selling country group said in a statement.
The bestselling country music outfit The Dixie Chicks will move forward as just The Chicks when they release their new album next month, they said Thursday, dropping “Dixie,” a nostalgic term for the American South from the Civil War-era, from their name as the U. S. faces a reckoning with its racist past.
In 2003, lead singer Natalie Maines told a London crowd the group was „ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas,“ referring to George W.

Continue reading...