Editing Dixie Carter (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter at the 41st Emmy Awards b.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter at the 41st Emmy Awards, Sunday September 17, 1989]]
In 1967, Carter married businessman [[Arthur L. Carter|Arthur Carter]] (no relation). Arthur published  [[New York Observer]].  Following the birth of their daughters-- Mary Dixie (1968) and Ginna(1970)-- Carter left acting for eight years to raise the girls and with Arthur's three children, Jon, Whendy and Ellen Carter{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}}.
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She divorced Arthur Carter in 1977 and married theater and TV actor [[George Hearn]] the same year. Two years later, she and Hearn divorced.{{Citation needed |date=October 2023}} She married [[Hal Holbrook]] in 1984.<ref name = CNN>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/10/dixie.carter.obit/index.html |title=Designing Women' star Dixie Carter dies from cancer complications |date=April 11, 2010 |work=[[CNN]] |access-date=August 3, 2023}}</ref>

In 1996, Carter published a memoir titled ''Trying to Get to Heaven'', in which she talked frankly about her life with Holbrook, ''Designing Women'' and her plastic surgery during the show's run. She acknowledged, along with other celebrities, having used human [[growth hormone]] for its antiaging properties.<ref>[http://www.physioage.com/news/usa_today.php ''USA Today''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127213833/http://www.physioage.com/news/usa_today.php |date=November 27, 2010 }} November 15, 2000</ref>

Carter was a lifelong [[Methodist]] and a member of the McLemoresville United Methodist Church.<ref>https://juicyecumenism.com/2010/04/29/methodist-dixie/</ref>

=== Political views ===
[[File:Dixie Carter 2000.jpg|thumb|upright|Carter in 2000]]
Carter was a registered [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] who described her political views as [[Libertarianism|libertarian]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/dixie-carter.html |title=Dixie Carter – Libertarian |first=Bill |last=Winter |work=Advocates for Self-Government |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230092218/http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/dixie-carter.html |archive-date=December 30, 2006 }}</ref> She was interviewed by [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] along with [[Pat Boone]] at the [[2000 Republican National Convention]], and once jokingly described herself as "the only Republican in show business".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dixiecarter.com/Trans/TR011.html|title=The View|date=January 31, 2001|work=Official Website|access-date=March 9, 2005|archive-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124142622/http://www.dixiecarter.com/Trans/TR011.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>  However, Carter's ''Designing Women'' character, Julia Sugarbaker, was known for her [[modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] political views and related speeches, for which she was nicknamed "The Terminator." Carter disagreed with some of her character's beliefs, and made a deal with the show's producers that if Julia delivered a "Terminator" monologue, she would get to sing a song in a future episode. In later years she was also a libertarian Republican who supported civil rights and same-sex marriage.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/apr/10/designing-women-actress-dixie-carter-dies-70/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722130101/http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/apr/10/designing-women-actress-dixie-carter-dies-70/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 22, 2012|title='Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter dies at 70; had roots in West Tennessee|date=April 11, 2010|publisher=[[The Commercial Appeal]]|access-date=April 11, 2010}}</ref>