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Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States. While there is no official definition of this region ...
Logemay, Butsee H. "The Etymology of 'Yankee'", Studies in English Philology in Honor of Frederick Klaeber, (1929) pp 403–13. Mathews, Mitford M. A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (1951) pp 1896 ff for elaborate detail; Mencken, H. L. The American Language (1919, 1921) The Merriam-Webster new book of word histories (1991)
"Dixie" is structured into five two-measure groups of alternating verses and refrains, following an AABC pattern. [3]As originally performed, a soloist or small group stepped forward and sang the verses, and the whole company answered at different times; the repeated line "look away" was probably one part sung in unison like this.
Dixie: Nickname applied to Southern U.S. region, various definitions include certain areas more than others, but most commonly associated with the eleven former Confederate States. Solid South : Electoral voting bloc largely controlled by the Democratic Party from 1877 to 1964, largely resulting from disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction ...
Dixie USFS Airport, a public-use U.S. Forest Service airport near Dixie, Idaho County, Idaho New Zealand DX class locomotive or Dixie , a series of diesel-electric locomotives Dixie , the private railroad car of Henry H. Rogers , builder of the Virginian Railway
The origin of the word Dixie is unknown but since its first use in 1859; it has referred to someone from the South, akin to the use of Yankee in the North. [7] Like the name implies and similar to that of the history of the Iron and Clay pea it was a popular variety in the Confederate states of America. [8]
Antebellum houses typical of the South, still stand in some of Little Dixie. All the crops grown there today are corn, soybeans and wheat, for which the area was better suited than for Southern crops like cotton or tobacco. Rural southern Missouri in the Ozark Plateau and the bootheel, are definitively southern in culture. [citation needed]
Dixie Carter (wrestling), American former promoter and businesswoman; Dixie D'Amelio (born 2001), American social media personality and singer, also known by the stage name Dixie; Dixie Dean William Ralph "Dixie" Dean (22 January 1907–1 March 1980) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward.