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The Dixie Chicks have changed their name and ditched 'Dixie' due to racial connotations from the past.While revealing the news of their latest single, March March, singers Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire confirmed the news that they are now to be known as The Chicks."We want to meet the moment," the band said on its website, without further explanation.US journalist Jeremy Helligar had recently said the word Dixie related to the slavery era of America.He said: "Dixie, for the record, 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."A statement released by the 13 times Grammy Award-winning group.

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