LOS ANGELES - Country music trio Dixie Chicks on Thursday changed its name to simply The Chicks, the latest move in US pop culture to drop associations with the nation's racist past.The word"Dixie" is associated with the US 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 female band was shunned by country radio stations in 2003 after singer Natalie Maines said she did not endorse the US invasion of Iraq.
The classic Civil War movie Gone With The Wind returned to the HBO Max streaming platform on Wednesday, accompanied by an introduction acknowledging the brutality of slavery.