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Dixie

Southern 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.

The song ‘Dixie’ 1859 by Daniel Emmett (1815-1904) popularized the term. Emmett himself was born in Ohio and worked in a minstrel troupe.



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