Musicians Emily Robinson, Natalie Maines and Martie Maguire of The Dixie Chicks (Photo by Michael Buckner/AMA/Getty Images for AMA)
The multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY Award-winning trio formerly known as The Dixie Chicks have changed their name.
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The all-female group has a history of making revolutionary statements with their brand.
The fallout from the comment was so severe that their group name became a verb, back before being “canceled” was a thing, you could be “Dixie Chicked.”
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One important note is that The Dixie Chicks’ name was not just derived from being from The South.
In a recent article, right before the announcement of the name change Variety writer, Jeremy Helligar, said the word Dixie “is the epitome of white America, a celebration of a Southern tradition that is indivisible from Black slaves and those grand plantations where they were forced to toil for free.”
