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On 8 January 2018 the dinner entertainment business World Choice Investments which runs a show in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee that had been called Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede announced that they would drop the word Dixie to avoid negative connotations with the antebellum South as the company expands its business to new locations: The change in the venue's name prompted cries that Parton and the show's organizers were bending to political correctness, a buzzword that essentially means adhering to language and policies that do not offend groups that have been socially marginalized or oppressed. For example Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett told Knox News: Despite the outcry, which is cropping up around the country as various businesses and local governments remove imagery or language that appears to glorify the slave-owning South, the venue did remove Dixie from the show's name. The url and web site for the venue have already been changed from dixiestampede.com to dpstampede.com. In August 2017, after a man drove into a crowd of counter-protesters and killed a woman at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Slate culture writer Aisha Harris panned the show as a lily-white kitsch extravaganza that play-acts the Civil War but never once mentions slavery that romanticized the Civil War-era South:
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