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Geographically, Dixie usually means the cultural region of the Southern states. However, definitions of Dixie vary greatly. Dixie may include only the Deep South (Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, etc.) or the states that seceded during the American Civil War.
8 giu 2017 · The most straightforward explanation for the South-Dixie connection concerns the Mason and Dixon Line, a boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that was drawn in 1767 by English surveyors...
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Dixie, the Southern U.S. states, especially those that belonged to the Confederate States of America (1860–65). The origins of the name are debated, but it was popularized by the song “ Dixie,” composed in 1859 by Daniel Decatur Emmett.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
26 giu 2020 · What Dixie Really Means. The band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks has changed its name in light of the growing rejection of racist symbols and phrases. By Ben Zimmer. The trio initially...
South of Dixie. South of Dixie is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Jean Yarbrough and written by Clyde Bruckman. The film stars Anne Gwynne, David Bruce, Jerome Cowan, Ella Mae Morse, Joe Sawyer and Samuel S. Hinds. The film was released om June 23, 1944, by Universal Pictures.
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27 giu 2020 · The word Dixie takes on a different meaning for different people. Most commonly, it’s associated with the old South and Confederate states. Dixie was considered the land south of the...
31 mar 2012 · Few of us remember “Dixie” as antebellum America’s last great minstrel song. We see it as most did two years after its creation — as the anthem of the Confederacy. And yet as phenomenally popular...
