On Monday night, if U.S. President George Bush really wants to make nice with his critics there's one group he needs to specifically address in his State of the Union speech -- the Dixie Chicks.

"If he wants to heal the country's divisions there doesn't seem to be any better thing to do than reach out to the Dixie Chicks," Renan Levine, a professor of U.S. politics at the University of Toronto, told CTV.ca.

"They are walking, talking, singing personifications of the divisions in the country and, yes, they are all from Texas.

"There needs to be a Bush-Dixie Chicks lovefest."

In 2003, country stations in the U.S. quit playing the Chicks after singer Natalie Maines criticized Bush in the lead up to the Iraq War.

Nearly five years later, Iraq continues to evoke strong opinions, the economy is in decline and Bush has about a 34 per cent approval rating.

Adding to his troubles, Bush will have to deliver his final State of the Union address before a hostile Democratic Congress and a country concerned more about the candidates running to replace him in 2009.

So, the big question is, what is he going to talk about?