Last I've heard, they decided they are no longer a "country" act, and don't want to be referred to as one. No word yet on how they now characterize themselves.
And they are still big in country music. CMT still plays their videos all the time, and they're played on country stations, at least in the Northeast.
Like I said their hits are still being played at country music. After Natalie Maines remarks a lot of country stations dropped all of their music and only reinstated it over time. So the hits are back with most stations but I would have to say that the chances of the Dixie Chicks getting any significant airplay for any new music at country radio is nil. So I would say that finding a new home for their music at radio is really their only option.
The Dixie Chicks have antagonized the pro life,pro war crowd at country radio and a reconciliation appears out of the question. How can anybody be pro life and pro war at the same time-that defies all logic but that's a different subject. I thougt it took a lot of guts for Natalie Maines to speak out against the war knowing full well that the average country listener so eagerly embraces the war in Iraq and just about any other war that comes down the pike. Now the Chicks have to pay the bill and move on. I'm sure they'll do fine wherever they might land.