Boycotts are effective if the organization boycotting you is a huge corporation who can make or break your career via blocking distribution or promotion of your product.
The Dixie Chicks boycott can be effective because Clear Channel is the one pushing the boycott and they control a huge percentage of the radio stations in the United States.
If some country music fans decided to boycott the Dixie Chicks, it would mean almost nothing. If Clear Channel boycotts them, they will be gone in a couple of years.
Coincidentally, Clear Channel, the organizers of the Dixie Chicks boycott, are also the distributor of Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
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