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4/24/2003 6:22 PM
LFOscalator	Dixie Chicks Pose Nude I don't understand this. Are they now protesting the wearing of clothing? http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=antiwar_movement Hey, I kind of like 'em better this way, if you ask me. LFO

4/24/2003 7:33 PM
jaysg	Any publicity is good publicity?

4/24/2003 10:05 PM

quote:
"Any publicity is good publicity?"

Only in Hollywood. Definitely *not* in Big D, where the Dipsy Chicks are allegedly from.

Mark

4/24/2003 10:26 PM
LFOscalator	Another thing I don't understand is that they presumably are from 'Dixie', when in reality they are from Texas. Isn't Dixie places like Alabama, the Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and so on. Seems to me Texas has always thought of themselves to be pretty damn near their own country. LFO

4/24/2003 11:09 PM

"Dixie" is actually any place *south* of the Mason-Dixon line (the southern border of Missouri lies exactly on the line), which was the dividing line between the North and the South. Texas was a southern state during the Civil War, but the "pretty damn near their own country" thing comes from the fact that Texas was an independent republic from 1836 (remember the Alamo) to 1845, when Texas joined the U.S., mostly due to the need for financial aid in the Lone Star State. And you thought the U.S. was imperialistic today!

Interesting, Texas-related, note: June 19th is celebrated as a holiday in Texas by black/African-American people. June 19th, called 'June-teenth' is the day news of the Emancipation Proclaimation reached Texas. A black acquaintance was ranting about the fact that Texas slaves were liberated 45 days after everyone else. The reason was the distance from D.C.: a man and horse can cover around 20 miles per day over wilderness terrain, as most of America was back then. 20 miles per day times 5 days is about 100 miles. It is about 1500 miles from Washington DC to Texas: 5 days per hundred miles times 1500 miles = 45 days - the time delay between the Proclaimation and the freeing of Texas slaves.

Another interesting note: Robert E. Lee, the famous Southern general was opposed to slavery but fought on the side of the South because his home state of Virginia decided to go with the pro-slavery crowd.

Final interesting note: The state of West Virginia was formed because some people in Virginia refused to be pro-slavery - so they broke away from Virginia to form a new state.

Sorry if I just committed information overload.

4/24/2003 11:21 PM
LFOscalator	About 20 years ago I attended the free Juneteenth festival in Houston, Texas. I don't know if they have it anymore. It was a real treat. Both Albert Collins and Albert King played that day. Both are legends and are now gone. Certainly a fun time. I have blue eyes, but nobody in the crowd seemed to mind. LFO

4/24/2003 11:43 PM

There are several posters and photos of SRV playing several Juneteenth festivals in the local Red, Hot, and Blue barbeque restaurant.

I think race issues are significantly less volatile in Texas than elsewhere in Dixie. At least that is my perception. There are certainly high profile incidents (Mathew Byrd, for example) but the general racial climate in in Texas is fairly calm. The city I live in has a black mayor and the city of Dallas had a black mayor until he decided to take a run at a vacant U.S. Senate seat in 2002.

Let us know if you are ever in DFW, we'll do some blues and Bar-B-Que.

Mark

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