“I recall one of the more popular country music groups in the early ‘90s was Confederate Railroad. Nobody seemed to make accusations about them being racist or their group’s name having racist connotations.”
Actually, Governor Pritzger took advantage of a virtue-signalling opportunity to cancel an appearance by them at the state fair, IIRC. This was very recently, though.
They still exist and are still touring.
On a related note, Confederate Motorcycles *quickly* changed their name to “Combat Motorcycles” and are offering a free “rebadging” to everyone who bought their bikes.
It made me sick to see them fold like a cheap tent.
Footnote:
Their FB page used to have tens of thousands of “likes”.
Has 2500 now.
Also, most of the posts calling them yellowbelly cowards have been removed.
Get woke, go broke.