Dixie/Dixieland

Is "Dixie" out of favor? I still have Heart of Dixie on my license plate - I think.

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to be honest - I don't know that much about it. It just is. I am not offended by it. I don't know anyone down here who is either.

http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=1507

huh....learn something new everyday.

Very interesting, mismi. Thanks.

I found this map:



So "Dixie" looks like the area east of the Rockies and south of the Mason Dixon line -- that's a big area.

I live in Oregon and sometimes refer to the Pacific northwest but I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma but can't imagine referring to myself as from Dixie.

I guess I don't really mean that Dixie has fallen out of favor so much as that it is just obsolete.

It ain't all that far south.

Except that it cuts off and head due south at its eastern most point...the Mason Dixon line would have run right through the southern third of New Jersey.

Well, I've got about 600 Dixieland jazz cd's ...

According to the most common explanation of the name 'Dixie-(land)', $10 notes issued before 1860 by the Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans and used largely by French-speaking residents were imprinted with dix (French: “ten”) on the reverse side; hence the land of Dixies, or Dixie Land, which applied to Louisiana and eventually the whole South.
(References to the "Mason-Dixon-Line" are another reason, according to some sources.)

Dixieland as a jazz style is often ascribed to the jazz pioneers in/from New Orleans, but also descriptive of styles honed by slightly later Chicago-area musicians.
The term also refers to the traditional jazz that underwent a popular revival during the 1940s and 1950's (especially in the UK, but other European countries as well) and that continued to be played into the 21st century.
The name seems to have appeared for the first as name of a group, in 1916, the "Original Dixieland Jass Band" [with two 's'!].