Dixie
[ˈdɪksi]Meaning
from the term for the southern United States
Background Story
Dixie comes from the term referring to the southern United States, used by Daniel D. Emmett in his song Dixie in 1859. The term may derive from French dix, "ten", printed on ten-dollar bills issued from a New Orleans bank, or from the Mason-Dixon Line, the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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