To contact this jazz band and tell them to stop using this word?

[FauxWhiteOrchid]

There’s a local jazz event taking place soon and the bio describes the band as “Dixieland”. I remember the Dixie Chicks apologising and changing their name.

The word derives from the American South and is also used in a Confederate song. Here’s the full Wikipedia page for “Dixie”. Basically, its usage is racist.

I was surprised to see the word at all but also not surprised as I live in a very white Reform/Tory voting area.

AIBU to contact the band and ask them to change their description? Or leave them alone? I know what the reaction will be if I do contact them: just music blah blah been a traditional word for this style of jazz blah blah world gone mad woke blah joy thief etc. But I see no reason to use this word in this day and age.

WWYD?

Can you eat mamalade though?

to everyone who posted on this thread.... I love you all for such a cheery sensible conversation

Omg yes, the same colour as dentures!!

Well thanks, OP, that has made me go and listen to Dixie Chicken by Little Feat - haven't played that in ages

Also, you couldn't use The Pink Stuff on it because you'd have no idea where it was

I don't know if would give me a migraine but I can't eat it because I hate oranges. They deserve my hate for the pain they have caused me. I have to say I'm luckier than some, did you know there are people who get migraines if they eat chocolate, now that is truly horrific.

Oh ffs seriously

I'm making some blabkberry jam tomorrow (hand picked at great cost to my hand's skin integrity, I might add!!). Could you manage a jar of that?
I have a bowl of oranges on the table in front of me and am sad that you and their kin are mortal enemies!

Nobody should expect that Wikipedia is a completely reliable source of information.

do you remember the time when there was no spray on bath cleaner? It was Ajax powder or nothing and that was a real bum grinder

As a child in hospital, when Florence was a lass, we were given some orange concoction, almost a concentrated version of squash. It had a uniquely weird taste.
In other news, toothpaste also came in a tin - less of a paste, more a compacted powder that you had to moisten!

Obviously hard for you to accept that 86% think you are wrong? Maybe you are wrong? The word does not have a precise meaning, so I don't see a case for censoring it.

To my knowledge it means the area south of the Mason Dixon line, and can mean someone from that area, and and can also refer to a style of music.

Its a bit of a streach to suggest that the word celebrates slavery and inequality?

(Not a Tory or Reform supporter, but I support freedom if speech)

eucryl tooth powder, mint flavoured Ajax.

I don't know about you, since you were actually there, while my mental images of the time are all from films and archive footage/photos and Matchbox models — but I think for me the Sunkist brand has somehow got muddled up with Sunblest, which definitely was a fifties brand.

I'm willing to bet the sneaky buggers were giving you cod liver oil mixed with concentrated orange juice. I've heard tell of such a monstrosity, at least.

suuuun blest the sign of good bread

I think you are all my neighbours. Thank you and good bye.

Oh, you’ve given it away now. I thought this was half serious!

Tell the band by all means but be prepared to make yourself look an utter dick

OP: Am I right?

MN: No, you're wrong!

OP: I hate you all flounce...

@FauxWhiteOrchid You should only use et al in academic writing.

I've lived in New Orleans for a long time, you would be laughed out of town if you launched a campaign to rename Dixieland Jazz OP. If you are interested in the history of Dixie and Dixieland, I will tell you the consensus of local historians is the term is more likely to have evolved from the usage of "dix" for $10 notes by French speaking traders prior to the Civil War. NO had a sound, well respected banking system/currency, thanks to a booming commerce. In the 1800s it was one of the busiest ports in the US due to many factors such being one of the cheapest ports for ships to enter, proximity to South America and the Caribbean, and of course being the mouth of the Mississippi. The song Dixie then became one of the popular Confederate marching songs, so it became associated with all of the states in the confederacy and therefore associated with pro-slavery and the Mason-Dixon line, which was the demarcation of the slave owing states and the free soil states. Dixieland jazz really didn't emerge until the beginning of the 20th century and it was born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong being one of the most famous Dixieland artists and of course, he was born and bred here.

So yeah, this is not the hill

Currently sitting having a BBQ with some ( black) friends . They are laughing their heads off as their cockapoo is named Dixie .

Fake plastic orchid …. Just not done in a Tory neighborhood.

@FauxWhiteOrchid I just joined the thread very late to say I am sorry you have been the centre of a pile on. The nastiness of the replies are a horrible window into the minds of many here.
It is perfectly possible to disagree without mocking the OP but that is not what has happened on this thread.
FWIW I don’t think the band using the word dixie is that bad but I would support any black people who did. As a disabled person I frequently find non disabled people feel they can decide what is and is not acceptable for me to have a right to be upset about which really rankles so I am not going to do it to others.