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"The rock stars of country" have their roots in Texas. The name Dixie Chicks is borrowed from a song by the blues-rock band Little Feat.
They have earned Grammys for Best Country Album and Best Country Vocal Performance by a Group; Academy of Country Music Awards for Album of the Year, Top Vocal Group, and Top New Vocal Group; and an American Music Award for favorite New Country Artist. On top of that, the Country Music Association presented the Dixie Chicks with a Horizon Award, and the band was also named Vocal Group of The Year as well. More recently, the CMA nominated the group for Entertainer of the Year.
Unfortunately, no one thinks about this. Lead singer Natalie Maines made a comment regarding President Bush, and the backlash was astonishing. It ranged from applause and claims that they were practicing free speech to death threats and crushing of albums.
In spite of this, their recent album is already a bestseller, and their fame seems only to have grown.
The Dixie Chicks are talented, and they worked hard to get where they are, but everything they ever did was rendered meaningless when one member said fifteen words.
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When a left-leaning public figure is aggressively made the target of potentially career-harming criticism from well-connected right-leaning individuals, institutions or news outlets, as in the way the Dixie Chicks were lambasted for their opposition to the Iraq war in 2003.
Paul Krugman definitely got Dixie Chicked by Donald Rumsfeld after that op-ed where he said the neocons tried to use 9/11 as an excuse to go to war.
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-Who's Dixie Damelio
-Charlie damelio's sister
-Oh
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Three brave American women not afraid to tell the truth about a government that employs lies and scare tactics to win over the populace in order to send our kids to another land to kill innocent people - all for oil.
Although I'm no country music fan, I'm sure proud to be from the country that produced the Dixie Chicks!
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Cool; Awesome. Originates from San Diego, CA, and commonly used in Greensboro, NC.
"Man, we had such a fun time last night. Last night was dixie cup!"
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A grown out pixie haircut that flat chested women request from high end salons. These woman are always lesbians and normally request such haircut after they realize their mullet is no longer in style. They almost always drive a Subaru.
My friend Celeste got a new haircut, I think it's a dixie cut.
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See also Dixie ~
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* Origination of name :
I have been asked several times for the origination of this name.
So here it is ~
Once upon a time,
I found out that my niece had been shipped off to some exotic location,
to be on some new reality t.v. show on Fox.
We had no idea where she was, because the location of the show was a secret.
I logged onto Fox t.v. on the computer, to see if I could find out where they had shipped my niece off to and when the show was going to air, so we wouldn't miss it.
I found the official Fox message board for a new show called "Paradise Hotel" and assumed that must be the right show.
A nickname was required to log on, and I had to think of something really fast, or log off.
The first thing that came to mind was the "Dixie Chicks" since they had been in the news a lot at the time.
I was upset that the Dixie Chicks were being banned, after one of them had said something negative about the President. (I feel everyone has a right to their opinion, whether we agree with it or not.)
Immediately after making her statement, radio stations refused to play their songs and people started burning their cds.
I thought this was ridiculous and incredibly un-American,
since we send our men and boys off to die in wars in other countries, so that people in other countries can have freedom.
And one of those freedoms is
"freedom of speech."
So for us to send our men and boys off to war to die
so that people in *other* countries can have a freedom that we apparently do not have in our *own* country, is ridiculous.
On principle, people should not have banned the Dixie Chicks' songs or cds.
They, as Americans, should have the same freedoms that we fight for in other countries.
Plus they have good, happy music. : )
So that's why the name popped into my head when I needed a nickname to log on with.
I'm not a groupie or anything,
and was not trying to pretend to "be" a Dixie Chick,
so I changed the name a little when I entered the nickname.
And that's the big long story of how the name "Dixie Chips" came into being.
Have a great day ~
And go buy a Dixie Chicks cd.
Listening to it will put you in a good mood...
It's really happy, uplifting music.
And may true freedom be forever protected in this great country of ours.
Best always, Dixie
: )
Dixie Chips thinks it's good to stand up for what you believe in.
Dixie Chips likes happy music.
Dixie Chips created the Sunshine Beach Cafe.
Dixie Chips wishes you all a prosperous and very blessed life.
Dixie Chips has left the building. lol
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