The name Dixie

[philip964]

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

[JustSomeOldGuy]

and don't forget the jazz standard;

TUCK ME TO SLEEP IN MY OLD TUCKY HOME
(Words by Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young / Music by George W. Meyer, 1921)


Old Kentucky cradled me when I was born
Old Kentucky how I miss your field of corn,
nighttime when I get to bed how I weep and toss my head,
I'll weep no more I'm going back instead.

Old Kentucky smile up on alone some shack
dear old 'Tucky keep it bright till I get back
make the shadows stay away from my mammy old and gray
she'd weep no more if she could hear me say.

Tuck me to sleep in my old 'Tucky home
cover me with Dixie skies and leave me there alone
just let the sun kiss my cheeks every morn;
like the kissin' I've been missin' from my mammy since I'm gone.
I ain't had a bit of rest, since I left my mammy's nest,
I can always rest the best in her loving arms
tuck me to sleep in my old Tucky home
let me lay there, stay there never no more to roam.

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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...

https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/isl ... lwp%3A9272

picture available at: https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/ ... 7928841320

[philip964]

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...

https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/isl ... lwp%3A9272

picture available at: https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/ ... 7928841320

Thanks! Maybe a better explanation.

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.

[WildBill]

Sometimes I wish that people would just grow up.

[carlson1]

Don’t you find it amazing that our flag, our culture, and our history offend so many people, but our benefits don’t?

[Syntyr]

Don’t you find it amazing that our flag, our culture, and our history offend so many people, but our benefits don’t?

The term "master" is officially canceled when it comes to describing bedrooms and bathrooms ... at least when you're searching for a home in Houston.

The Houston Association of Realtors is no longer using the word "master" to hype bedrooms and bathrooms on its Multiple Listing Service ... instead, the realtors are going with the word "primary."

Now it's Master...

[K.Mooneyham]

Don’t you find it amazing that our flag, our culture, and our history offend so many people, but our benefits don’t?

Just amazing.

[crazy2medic]

Sometimes I wish that people would just grow up.

I think your asking too much of the loonies!

[Deltaboy]

Sad days

[NotRPB]

So... what will they call a Master's degree now?

Since in the UK a Master is a younger fellow than a Mister ... maybe it'll be a "Young Mister degree conferred on an older gentleman/woman/undecided/questioning"
but that might lead to charges of age discrimination, which appears to be acceptable to liberals so ... who knows

[striker55]

Unbelievable what people are thinking today. Toothpaste no longer saying whitening. It's never ending. Sorry isn't a toothpaste company https://www.foxnews.com/world/loreal-re ... g-products

[philip964]

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.

[Jusme]

When everything is racist, then nothing is racist.