Dixie Chicks=Quebec Chicks???

[Louis VI the Fat]

"Dixie Chicks=Quebec Chicks"

What, if you aint smalltown, conservative, Republican and even anti-intellectual you aint Dixie? And you had better pack your bags and move to liberal, French-speaking Canada?

Oh, why oh why did the conservatives ever manage to hijack an entire regional identity for a political agenda? The Republicans stealing the South is the greatest tragedy in recent American history.

Okay, so to the average fan, in order to be accepted as a country band you have to behave as if you've just walked out of a Dukes of Hazard episode. Fair enough. But to put a group under this much pressure for moving beyond the stereotype is ridiculous.

Nobody would've noticed an urban hip-hop artist making an anti-Bush stand. But if a Texan country group speaks out it is viewed in terms of betrayal. They're 'traitors'.
To which I say Gah! Liberalism and anti-Bushism are as Dixie, Texan and American as narrow-minded conservatism is. The Dixie Chicks betrayed neither country nor Country.

I see all this as a variant of that horrid slogan 'America, love it or leave it'. What that really says is: 'shut up and conform'. Which to me is the most un-patriotic, un-American statement you can make.

So go Dixie Chicks and God bless America.


"The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves, To me, they're terrific American artists expressing American values by using their American right to free speech. For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about - namely freedom.

Right now, we are supposedly fighting to create free speech in Iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home. I don't know what happens next, but I do want to add my voice to those who think that the Dixie Chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-American one to boot. I send them my support."

~ Bruce Springsteen

[Csargo]

There's an easy way to explain all this Canadia>US easy lol

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

If they're taken off radio stations and networks, it's hardly un-American. Those stations feel their consumers don't want to hear them, and thus they have little choice in the matter. "Nothing personal, it's just business." And what's more American than cold capitalism?

[whyidie]

"Dixie Chicks=Quebec Chicks"

What, if you aint smalltown, conservative, Republican and even anti-intellectual you aint Dixie? And you had better pack your bags and move to liberal, French-speaking Canada?

Oh, why oh why did the conservatives ever manage to hijack an entire regional identity for a political agenda? The Republicans stealing the South is the greatest tragedy in recent American history.

Okay, so to the average fan, in order to be accepted as a country band you have to behave as if you've just walked out of a Dukes of Hazard episode. Fair enough. But to put a group under this much pressure for moving beyond the stereotype is ridiculous.

Nobody would've noticed an urban hip-hop artist making an anti-Bush stand. But if a Texan country group speaks out it is viewed in terms of betrayal. They're 'traitors'.
To which I say Gah! Liberalism and anti-Bushism are as Dixie, Texan and American as narrow-minded conservatism is. The Dixie Chicks betrayed neither country nor Country.

I see all this as a variant of that horrid slogan 'America, love it or leave it'. What that really says is: 'shut up and conform'. Which to me is the most un-patriotic, un-American statement you can make.

So go Dixie Chicks and God bless America.


"The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves, To me, they're terrific American artists expressing American values by using their American right to free speech. For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about - namely freedom.

Right now, we are supposedly fighting to create free speech in Iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home. I don't know what happens next, but I do want to add my voice to those who think that the Dixie Chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-American one to boot. I send them my support."

~ Bruce Springsteen

I think the South turning was a somewhat natural progression. Even more interesting to me is the dramtic upturn of the conservative whiner. It wasn't too long ago when the left was the party that was the overrun with whiny angry people. The right has managed to increase their whininess 100x while being the party in power for the past 8 years. Quite an achievment.