The Chicks wanted to drop 'Dixie' years ago
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torontosun.comThe country stars formerly known as The Dixie Chicks had been wanting to change their “stupid” name for years before finally taking action last month.The Cowboy Take Me Away singers announced they would be known as The Chicks following a public plea by U.S.
journalist Jeremy Helligar, who explained the word “dixie” is “the epitome of white America” and “conjures a time and a place of bondage”.Bandmates Martie Maguire, Emily Strayer, and Natalie Maines agreed and quickly ditched “Dixie” from their moniker online, and in a new interview with The New York Times, they explain the move had been a long time coming.“We were literally teenagers when we picked that stupid name,” Maguire shared of its origins in 1989, inspired by the Dixie Chicken
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