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DixieSouthern states of the USA. Dixie encompasses those states that joined the Confederacy during the American Civil War. The word may derive from the Mason-Dixon Line defining the northern boundary. Another explanation refers to the paper money printed in Louisiana before the Civil War, which had one side inscribed in French: on ten-dollar bills dix.
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| I's g'wine back to Dixie, I's g'wine back to Dixie, I's g'wine where de orange blossoms grow, For I hear de chillun eallin', I see de sad tears fallin'-- My heart's turned back to Dixie, An' I mus'go. This is the way it goes: Bullfrog 95, Dixie 16, Golden Anchor 65, Gold Mountain 13, Jim Butler 70, Jumbo 75, North Star 42, Rescue 7, Black Butte 75, Brown Hope 16, Iron Top 3. |
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