LOS ANGELES — Country music trio Dixie Chicks on Thursday changed its name to simply The Chicks, the latest move in U.S. pop culture to drop associations with the nation’s racist past.“We want to meet the moment,” the band said on its website, without further explanation.The word “Dixie” is associated with the U.S.
southern states where chattel slavery was legal and which seceded from the union and fought as the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
This month, country band Lady Antebellum changed its name to Lady A, also because of the associations of the Antebellum period with slavery.The Dixie Chicks formed in Texas in 1989, and became one of the biggest names in country music.
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