It’s tradition, damnit!
I believe that if the PC-police around DC and Maryland want to really make this an issue...the Redskins would be prepared to pack up and leave....for Virginia. There are several areas around Arlington that real estate developers have essentially left open and easily accommodate a massive stadium and parking lot.
The general thought locally now is that Maryland has a fair amount of liberal laws being floated. It wouldn’t take much to require the team name change and get it on the ballot. The team would use that to vacate the stadium deal they are locked into, and just skip right over DC to avoid continued confrontation.
I’ll even go out on the limb and predict by 2025...the team resides just across the river into Virginia....and Maryland kicking itself for losing the tax revenue the team generated.
Like the n-word? Yet more than a few high schools on Indian reservations proudly call their teams “Redskins.” Google it.
That held water in Germany during 1946 as well.