https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and ... ver_(film)
I guess this Clifton Webb movie, Stars and Stripes Forever, about John Philip Sousa will be banned at some point.
It features Dixie very prominently when his band goes to the South and performs.
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- Sun Jun 28, 2020 12:37 pm
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- Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:08 pm
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Re: The name Dixie
Thanks! Maybe a better explanation.JustSomeOldGuy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:39 pm I am familiar with the origin of the 'Mason-Dixon Line', but I've also been told by several sources during my youth that the term 'Dixie' came from pre-civil war Louisiana currency. The ten had 'DIX' written on it, and it's slang reference did the rest...
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Now Antebellum, Lady Antebellum another musical group changed their name to Lady A.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antebellum
Before the War.
So a house built in the South before the CivilWar would be Antebellum. A 1938 Ford could instead of prewar could be called antebellum instead.
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:04 pm
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The name Dixie
I was born up North, but I got here as fast as I could.
So I know little of the history of Texas and the southern United States. Today I can’t imagine living in some of the states I lived in growing up. I’m really glad I came to Texas many years ago.
I know people with the first name Dixie, and with the Evil vile women know as the Dixie Chicks changing their name to Chicks, I was curious where it came from.
“Originally surveyed from 1763 to 1767 to establish a boundary dispute, it eventually become a dividing line between the slave owning states of the south and the non-slave states of the North. The Confederate South became associated with the side of the line surveyed by Jeremiah Dixon, so it became known as Dixie”.
So it’s from the Mason Dixon line. But what about song Dixie?
“Dixie, the Southern U.S. states, especially those that belonged to the Confederate States of America (1860–65). The name came from the title of a song composed in 1859 by Daniel Decatur Emmett; this tune was popular as a marching song of the Confederate Army, and was often considered the Confederate anthem.”
Then there is the other song “ the night they drove old Dixie down” by the Band later made popular by Joan Baez it reached number 3 in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night ... Dixie_Down
So I know little of the history of Texas and the southern United States. Today I can’t imagine living in some of the states I lived in growing up. I’m really glad I came to Texas many years ago.
I know people with the first name Dixie, and with the Evil vile women know as the Dixie Chicks changing their name to Chicks, I was curious where it came from.
“Originally surveyed from 1763 to 1767 to establish a boundary dispute, it eventually become a dividing line between the slave owning states of the south and the non-slave states of the North. The Confederate South became associated with the side of the line surveyed by Jeremiah Dixon, so it became known as Dixie”.
So it’s from the Mason Dixon line. But what about song Dixie?
“Dixie, the Southern U.S. states, especially those that belonged to the Confederate States of America (1860–65). The name came from the title of a song composed in 1859 by Daniel Decatur Emmett; this tune was popular as a marching song of the Confederate Army, and was often considered the Confederate anthem.”
Then there is the other song “ the night they drove old Dixie down” by the Band later made popular by Joan Baez it reached number 3 in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night ... Dixie_Down