(July 6, 2020 at 5:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: FYI - The Dixie Chicks dropped "Dixie" from their name due to everything that's currently going on.
I was unaware that ‘Dixie’ has bad connotation, so I looked up the origin.
Back when individual states printed their own currencies, Louisiana issue a ten dollar note that had ‘dix’ (French for ‘ten’) printed on the back. These notes came to be called ‘dixies’, and were said to be from ‘Dixie-land’.
So, originally, there wasn’t anything especially odious about the term ‘Dixie’, but meanings change over time.
(There are some other origin stories for the word, but the above seems the most likely.)
Boru
Yep. Meanings change over time. "Fly" originally referred to flight or an insect, but "Fly" back in the late 80s and early 90s meant " cool" or "sexy".
But the truth still remains that some terms/words/icons cannot be saved once turned into a oppressive connotation. It is why for years now I no longer defend the "Redskins" team name.