07-11-2003, 09:44 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: near Chicago
Posts: 3,025
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Exactly so. So these chicks, or girls/women, are from Dixie, or the American South. Three girls from Dixie - 3 Dixie Chicks.
Another common expression for women from the American South is Southern Belles, but for the name of a singing group, I'm sure that one had been taken.
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