Posted on 01/12/2018 6:10:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Dolly Parton’s famous “Dixie Stampede” just got trampled by a politically correct mob.
The popular dinner show with locations in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Branson, Missouri, will now be called, “Dolly Parton’s Stampede.”
For nearly 30 years, the Dixie Stampede has been a family-friendly dinner show attraction — featuring great food and expert horsemanship — steeped in Civil War history. The Starnes family has attended on numerous occasions (we sat on the Southern side).
It’s unclear what – specifically – Miss Dolly will be stampeding in the culturally-cleansed revision. And it’s also not clear why the sudden name change (but I have a suspicion).
“Our shows currently are identified by where they are located,” Miss Dolly said in a press statement. “Some examples are Smoky Mountain Adventures or Dixie Stampede. We also recognize that attitudes change and feel that by streamlining the names of our shows, it will remove any confusion or concerns about our shows and will help our efforts to expand into new cities.”
Last year, Slate sent a Yankee reporter to Pigeon Force to write a scathing review of the Dixie Stampede – described as the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy meets Cirque du Soleil.”
The writer went on to call the show a “lily-white extravaganza” that celebrates the “Old South.”
Again, Miss Dolly did not say what influenced the decision to culturally cleanse the Dixie Stampede — but others share my thoughts.
“Well, like everybody else, I love Dolly, and I love all that she’s done for our community, which is her community, and I’m disappointed that they’re yielding to political correctness,” Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett told the Knoxville News Sentinel. “What’s next? Are we going to change the name of Dixie cups and the Dixie sugar company? You know, I just hope they don’t change their Christmas program.”
I reckon somebody ought to give the Dixie Chicks a call…
“Ignorant”? Seriously? Nothing to do with that. Of course Tennesseeans know they were Union.
I wasn’t referring to a literal Civil War South v. North, just general southern mindset, which does exist in TN. I was born in PA, raised in NY, and I’m proud to be part of the south — Dixie — now.
And they’re pissed about the overall caving to political correctness — which Dolly is doing.
I heard too many comments about Dolly’s good.reputatiom and character over the years so I give her benefit if doubt.
You are right about there being a different mindset in Tennessee than in the leftist urban coastal culture. But I think that divide is more rural versus urban than north and south. And rural culture should not be linked closely to the Confederacy, a power-grabbing movement that ruthlessly exploited the common man, both black and white.
Much like their Northern counterparts.
“In fact, when East Tennesseans wanted to exercise their “right to secede” (which Confederates insisted everyone had), the slimy hypocrites in Nashville and Richmond wouldn’t let them and even sent a whole Confederate army to keep them in the Confederacy by force.”
Massacred resistor’s too.
It’s hypocrisy to care about that compromises your own country while not caring about things that compromise another country that doesn’t even exist anymore, and hasn’t existed during mine, my parents, or my grandparents lifetime?
That’s a strange definition of hypocrisy you’ve got there.
‘Now tell me where I’m wrong?’
you asserted that FR is a place where Southern heritage is spat upon, and then, to back it up, you throw out the idiotic notion that those who do not despise Lincoln are the instigators of it; a ridiculous assertion on its face...please indicate where someone on this forum opined that cemeteries with Confederate dead should be dug up and the remains placed in a big ditch, and covered up with salted earth, which is what you implied...
At every one of these meetings and rallies, they trot out their token white person who talks about “traitors” and “evil people.”
what meetings are you going on about...?
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