The Name The USA Wants To Forget 

Not only did I make a video about the Mason-Dixon line, but I stepped all over it!

As someone from Texan with a lot of family in "Dixieland" I'll say I rarely hear someone call it that. Just calling it the south is much more common. When I do people use dixie its always dixie and not dixieland. For me I don't really have a negative or positive connotation with the word. It evokes a kinda romanticized version of the south and makes me think of Duke's of Hazard.

Not an American, but when i hear the term "dixie", i think of farmlands, the Mississippi Riverboats and warm Southern Hospitality.

“He’s Alabama bound with a load of bananas, headin’ south across the --“

I'm American but I'm not from the south. Here the term Dixie evokes not just the south as a region but an idealized version of the classic agrarian southern lifestyle. It's a highly romantic ideal that's been deconstructed to hell and back over the last 60 years or so, but I don't think it's necessarily bad and there certainly is a lot of charm to it. It's also an expression of culture and identity for southerners, particularly in the deep south, kind of like "Yankee" for people in the deep north.

In (international) aviation, a standard phonetic alphabet is used. "D" is spoken as "delta", except in Atlanta. Atlanta is a major Delta Air Lines hub, and to avoid confusion, instead of delta for D, dixie is used for D.

Ask Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam about the Mason-Dixon Line. 😜 Lol

Kentucky was on the side of the Union in the Civil War, so I wouldn’t put it under the Confederate flag in the thumbnail.

As a southerner I was surprised that my friends from Austin thought of Dixie as having a negative, confederate connotation. I found this out when I joked about opening a “Dixie Candle” next to the Yankee Candle and selling southern scented candles. To me, Dixie is just a name for the south, and I never thought of it as being tied to the confederacy anymore than anything else regarding the south.

Maryland was historically a southern state and some of southern Maryland still has a southern character. Pennsylvania was considered the border state. (Hence the Keystone State nickname)

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They taught us in the US Public Schools back in the 1970's that it's named for the Mason/Dixon Line - for what that's worth...

As an American from a northern state, the word "Dixieland" just makes me imagine the rural South. I don't have any negative reaction to it, though I'm sure some people probably don't like the word because of some of the connotations that come from it. I've visited the region commonly known as "Dixieland" many times (most recently I went to Texas). It's a region with a lot of very kind ordinary people who know how to make some delicious food, and it's a nice place to go for a Winter vacation. The region has its share of issues, like poverty, drug use, and violence (all of which are more of a problem in specific areas rather than throughout the entire region), but generally it's not a very bad place.

Dixie Land realty extends into Missouri, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and definitely Maryland. The understanding in the video is based largely on the CSA, which did not contain all of Dixie.

Now that is a pronunciation of "Maryland" that I wasnt expecting, but understand. Also this jazz section explains to me why The South is being called "Dixieland" so much here

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I'm sure that this video won't spark any strong opinions from anyone(!)

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Here in my home state of Missouri, there's "Little Dixie," a 13- to 17-county region along the Missouri River in central Missouri, USA.

“You get a shiver in the dark “It's a raining in the park but meantime- “South of the river you stop and you hold everything “A band is blowing Dixie, double four time “You feel alright when you hear the music ring” Dire Straits, Sultans of Swing

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Since 1955, Alabama has included "Heart of Dixie" on their vehicle licence plates, sometimes just in plain text, and sometimes as part of a design within a cartoon-style heart. It's still on the current base licence plates, as required by law, but many collegiate and other distinctive (aka organizational) plates now omit the slogan entirely after a 1997 law allowed such omissions, and even the base plate's imagery has relegated the HoD logo to the Least Significant Corner -- that is, the lower-right -- of the plate, in a size so small one would have stand close to even notice it.

I live in a town (Lake Jackson) named after a large plantation owner, Abner Jackson. Two of the main roads that run though are ‘Plantation’ and ‘Dixie.’ I don’t think the names are necessarily ‘bad,’ but it’s definitely something you realize eventually like ‘oh… yeah.’

Now that The Dixie Chicks have dropped the 'Dixie' will the 1960s girl group, The Dixie Cups now have to be simply The Cups? Interestingly enough it wasn't until I obtained a copy of their 1964 album 'Chapel Of Love', named after their smash-hit single of that year, that it occurred to me that their name was a sort of play on words, originating in the South (New Orleans) as they did, the front cover showing the disposable cups of the Dixie brand, which I note is still in production, making me wonder if there may be pressure exerted to change that name.

"You gonna pull those pistols or whistle dixie?" -The Outlaw, Josey Wales

Didn't Biden say he was the last Dixiecrate 😂😂 Delaware

There is a Dixie highway running through South Florida. It starts all the way up in Detroit, Michigan where the automobile industry was primarily located when Dixie highway was built-in the 30's, it was to motivate people to move down here to the way South, south Florida. The classic band Journey has a song called The Dixie Highway. Good song!!

Dixie is all the States under the Mason-Dixon Line. Maryland & Delaware were likely to join the Confederacy, but the State governments couldn't vote, so they remained in the Union. West Virginia only exists because Unionists in Western Virginia appointed themselves as the Government of Virginia & gave themselves permission to leave Virginia then the Government of the new State rejected the name the people picked which is how we got West Virginia.

I’m from Tennessee, and you would be surprised how little I have heard people use the word “Dixie”. Like, there are some roads and businesses with Dixie in their names, but other than that, the word isn’t used very much.

Here in Michigan there is one of the old pike roads that led from northern Michigan all the way to Georgia. We still call it the Dixie Highway.

Would that make the North Masieland?

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I hate the phrase of “nice slave owner”

Here from Dixieland! (Virginia)

As an Illinois native, you can definitely include southern Illinois and Indiana, and the Missouri boot heel in Dixieland.

speaking as a US southerner, I've noticed that it doesn't matter what you call the south, a lot of folks don't really disconnect it from the confederacy (seen plenty of dumbasses with the flag in the north too). I think the folks who do a big stink of changing dixie things to other names do it more as a performance, so that they can be seen doing something without actually needing to help anyone.

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Born and raised in North Carolina, lived here my whole life. I don’t know of a single person who calls it “Dixie” instead of just “the South.” There’s always been a few things with “Dixie” in their name but many of them are being changed. And not by Yanks coming and “messing up” our heritage, but by us Southerners who think our “heritage” needs to be viewed more critically, to be learned from and healed from rather than uncritically celebrated and romanticized. I knew an old Black pastor who used to refer to the local “Dixie Classic Fair” as “the Third Reich Classic” to emphasize how offensive he felt the name was to Black Southerners (and Black people in general). Can’t say he was all that wrong.

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I feel like the phrase "Dixie" and "Dixieland" is more attributable to the song "Dixie" (the Civil War song enjoyed by The Dukes of Hazard") than with the proliferation of Jazz later into the 20th Century. Honestly kind of surprised you didn't bring it up. It's what people mean when they talk about "whistling dixie" and the like.

In the section about popularization of the term "Dixie", you should've emphasized the song Dixie from 1859. It was very popular at the time and is an enduring, if controversial, symbol of the South. While it's perhaps most associated with the Confederacy now, it's worth noting it's more general popularity at the time and since. President Lincoln himself was a noted fan of the song who had it played at rallies and other public events, including the announcement of General Lee's surrender.

I'm from Maryland and it's so annoying how everyone from the north thinks we're in the south and everyone in the south thinks we're in the north. We are officially a *southern* state because we are below the Mason-Dixon Lane but in reality we are a bit of both, and a bit of neither!

As a southerner, I'll say that Kentucky, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and the lower half of Missouri are part of the geographic south, but Maryland isn't. To me, the south ends at the Potomac river.

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I can vouch for the name, Dixie being scrubbed clean. We have a annual fair in Winston-Salem North Carolina that was referred to as the Dixie classic fair from 1952 through 2019 The city council voted in October 2019 to change the name because it’s offensive and renamed it the Carolina classic fair which went into affect in 2021 as there was no fair in 2020

When you still remember from old Southern books

I’ve grown up in “Dixieland” and I’ve never heard that term till now and I’m 35

Hank said if heaven ain’t like Dixie then he don’t want to go

My grandmothers name was Dixie. That name has been with me for my entire 66 years and will be for eternity. Virginia native. Live in GA

My partner does mapping with GIS, mostly for adjusting political districts in New Mexico, & part of his job is to make recommendations based on well established lines, like roads, rivers, mountain ranges, or the Mason-Dixon Line. Yeah, it's odd that an imaginary line can have as much power as a highway or a river, though it's a definable boundary so I guess it works. Unless someone chooses to build a house right on top of it, in which case some hard decisions have to be made. I don't understand this fully, though I appreciate this video as much as any other.

Louisville, right on the line, for years had an international track and field event held here called the Mason-Dixon Games. It lasted until about the early 1980s. We also had a radio newscaster on top 40 station WAKY who went by the name Mason Dixon. Considering it was the '60s and a pop station - pronounced "wacky," no less - who knows whether that was his actual name.

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as someone from mississippi we love dixie

John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave.

I think many remember from Winn Dixie

I like the name Dixieland just since it avoids confusion with South America and it sounds cool.

The word "Dixie" immediately made me think of the end song of the Laurel and Hardy film, "Way Out West," the song being "Going Down to Dixie."

Hey, P.S. Winn Dixie gives you an idea where Dixie's land is but there's a 1909 map that only includes the states below Walker's Line, excluding Texas. So the states part of Dixie is Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, and below. Also to let you know, Tennessee along with a few southern states are part of Dixie Alley. Hope that helps

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Dixieland is just the south, it’s about it know adays heck they still use it in shops business and there is a them park with that name

No we dont want to forget it we want it remained

Dixie Alley has been subject to numerous tornado outbreaks throughout history, including very intense outbreaks and those of very large spatial and temporal extent. Notorious outbreaks affecting the region include: the Great Natchez Tornado, the 1884 Enigma tornado outbreak, the April 1924 tornado outbreak, the 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak, the 1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak, the April 1957 Southeastern tornado outbreak, the 1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak, and the November 1992 tornado outbreak. The 1974 Super Outbreak also hit the area very hard, producing multiple F5 tornadoes in Alabama, and F4 tornadoes in North Georgia and the Appalachian southwest of North Carolina. More recently the region was hit by the 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak followed by the tornado outbreak of April 14-16, 2011, the deadliest since the 2008 outbreak. Two weeks after the April 14-16 event, Dixie Alley was the epicenter of the 2011 Super Outbreak, which was the largest tornado outbreak ever recorded, as well as the fourth-deadliest outbreak in United States history, with over 300 people dead. The Easter 2020 Tornado Outbreak also happened in Dixie Alley. It spawned over 100 tornadoes and has a spot in the top most tornadoes in 24 hours in an outbreak.

Hi, I’m American (not from the south). Dixie is understood to be a poetic term for the south, but people mainly say it in reference to a song called Dixie. The melody from that song is played by the horn of the car in The Dukes of Hazard which has a Confederate flag painted on it. It’s also used in an idiom. When you entertain unrealistic fantasies, you’re said to be whistling Dixie.

In germany, "Dixie" is the name of a big port-a-potty company and became kind of generic.

The dubious Midwest? The suspicious, doubtful Midwest. No one, but no one calls it that and is indeed the Midwest.

We also have Dixie brand paper plates and cups

I was only familiar with the term Dixieland in relation to music and didn't realise that it related to an actual geographical region.

Have to say the only times I've heard it referenced in the last 20+ years is referring to Dixieland music, the former Dixie Chicks who were already a forgotten afterthought when they dropped it from their name, and Winn-Dixie grocery stores. But I'm also not actually in that area, so there may be some existing usage of it by actual southerners.

The story I have always heard was that it was the "dix" note of New Orleans, called a "dixie" by non-French speakers. Why are we trying to "forget" it?

You really should have mentioned the supermarket chain Winn-Dixie.

Missouri and Kentucky were border states. They had confederates in them and a confederate government and a union government so it was messy. The confederates didn’t really control enough of either state to truly say it was part of the confederacy BUT both were represented on the battlefield flag (the most people and familiar with).

Dixie isn’t as controversial as you’d think. Many call the south Dixie, there’s even the Dixie mafia lol.

One of our computer programmers set up the southern bosses name so if he typed his name in I Wish I was in the land of cotton etc. would pop up. He rethought this and took it done. Before he was caught. Good idea

I have never heard this explanation before but all I can say is I do remember when I was a kid watching cartoons I do remember Bugs Bunny singing "I wish I was in dixie hurray hurray" but didn't know what it meant. Not even sure if it is relevant to this topic.

Dixieland just makes me think of banjos and twangy voices. Also I'm not from the South, but i feel like Florida is its own thing.

I was singing the Looney tunes version of "I wish I was in Dixie" all through your video, lol

i wish i was in dixie in dixieland ill make my stand to live and die in dixie

The song. I Wish I Was in Dixie. I still here the chorus in my head. "Then I wish I was in Dixie! Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie's Land I'll take my stand, to live and die in Dixie! Away! Away! Away down South in Dixie! Away! Away! Away down South in Dixie!"

There is an amusement park in Georgia called Dixieland. It has no other references to antebellum south or confederacy though. I haven't been there since i was in elementary school and i am surprised it was never renamed (i looked it up and it is surprisingly still around under the same name).

If heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie, I don’t want to go

lol @ Mary-land

Greetings from Dixie

My late father used to call Israel Dixieland. Don't know why though ...

Little Feat ( best ever band ) sang in Dixie Chicken - If you'll be my Dixie Chicken , I'll be your Tennessee lamb , And we can walk together down in Dixieland. ( fab song )

Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia are also part of the South.

Old cowboy told me in the 70’s the one about the ten/dix note as it was “good” far and wide, due to its reliable value. So, the area that these notes were in circulation was better in this way as well as other paper money was often short-lived (even in bigger eastern cities) in those years. Or so I recall, anyway…

Winn-Dixie my favorite store thingy or whatever it is... ☠️☠️☠️

“Those who forget the past, are doomed to repeat it.”

Dixie is basically just an allegory for the DEEP south (bama, Georgia, MS, Louisiana, northern Florida) but it really isn’t used anymore

The pic left out Oklahoma territory for part of the confederate states of america ( dixie land )

Mr. Beat's accent make him sound like an extremely laid-back uncle.

🤔 I worked for several companies that used Dixie in their business name. But I do live in the Heart of Dixie. Heritage not hate is the new battle cry when people say it's racist

as a person that lives in Dixie and is proud of my homeland, if you find it offensive, GFY

Well Dixie is where I live and if the word DIXIE offends you, then you have real problems.

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Somebody is gonna say something about Oklahoma being southern and start an argument. I'm calling it now

I wouldn't consider Texas to be part of Dixieland. At least for most Texans, Dixie stops at Louisiana... we're Texas, don't need any other name attached. But seriously, I've always assumed Dixie was the Deep South, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana. (No Tennessee, no Kentucky, no Arkansas, no Florida, no Texas).

Im from Maryland,PG County right outside of DC. You would never know it today,but in the old days PG County was horse and tobacco country. The neighborhood I grew up in was built around one of the last plantation style houses still standing in the county. I think a lot of the older generation would probably include PG County as apart of Dixieland,even though it really isn’t

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I think most Americans don't mind the name, especially those from the South. Dixie is just the name for that region of the country. It may have a controversial origin, but a lot of things do, you can't forget history because it offends you. Its like the Confederate flag, it's meaning has evolved with time to be representive of the south and rural living at large.