This. Outlaw country has a decades-long tradition, even if rightwing pop country is more popular.

They’re just The Chicks now. They were uncomfortable with the racist implications and confederate associations with the word Dixie.

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/25/883328370/dixie-chicks-change-band-name-to-the-chicks

I liked The Dixie Chicks then, and like them now. Her statement has aged well, and the response to it hasn’t. But their music wasn’t particularly woke or progressive in the way Guthrie’s was or Hellas’ is.

There is something satisfying about critique coming from what conservatives would consider ‘their music.’

If anyone's curious, they actually wrote a song addressing that whole kerfuffle a few years after the fact called "Not Ready to Make Nice". In so far as pop-country goes, it's pretty good.

Also, "Gaslighter" is a bop, while I'm recommending songs of theirs.

In the spirit of Renee Good, pull a switcheroo and give the credit to Beyonce.