Confederate Railroad becoming a train wreck. They need to book Lil Nas X instead. UPDATE links added at end of blog post.

It was just a matter of time that other state and local fairs would start considering whether having the band Confederate Railroad as a performing group is such a good idea.

For those who are unaware of what is happening, the band Confederate Railroad was dropped from the Illinois State Fair.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/09/rock-band-called-confederate-railroad-booted-from-illinois-state-fair/

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/07/09/confederate-railroad-says-name-got-it-ousted-from-state-fair/

Now it turns out that Confederate Railroad has gotten kicked out of another summer fair.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/07/25/confederate-flag-costs-country-band-confederate-railroad-two-gigs-month/1828242001/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/7/25/8930392/confederate-railroad-band-dropped-from-another-fair-confederate-flag

Suddenly people are thinking, hey being named after an insurrection to preserve slavery and white supremacy is not a good thing.  Suddenly booking Confederate Railroad would be like booking a band named "Third Reich Rock and Rollers." 

For jobs for which the band has already been booked, I think some will have them perform and some will drop them. Each fair that decides to keep them will be realizing that it will be bad publicity locally and questions will be asked, especially as the third and fourth cancellations start coming in. Also a fair manager has to realize that the Confederate Railrod band will be leaving the county, but the people angered by their performance will be remaining in the county to condemn them all year.

Also, with a second fair now having cancelled Confederate railroad, people scheduling fairs in 2021, 2022 etc. are not going to have to drop Confederate Railroad, since they are not going to be signing them up in the first place. Regardless of how fair managers regard the Confederacy or care about the name of the band, they will decide it is a headache they don't want.  For rural fairs wanting to attract some urban business the Confederate railroad will definitely be something they don't want.

Also, white nationalists will be campaigning for Confederate Railrods and they truly will be the case of "With friends like these, you don't need enemies."

In the future no band will want any name which makes a direct or oblique reference to the Confederacy. 

Neo-Confederates look at the future  of Country  Music.

New link added.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/454768-country-band-loses-second-gig-over-use-of-confederate-flag-imagery

UPDATE Southern Partisan had article about Confederate Railroad at neo-Confederate event.

https://newtknight.blogspot.com/2019/07/confederate-railroad-performed-at-neo.html#.XTucu-g2qiM