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.
Technically texas is a part of dixie but it kinda feels like a cousin of the south rather than a sibling. People from one state over stick out like a sore thumb, and when I go over there I probably stick out just as much.
Texan, born and raised, and I've NEVER heard anyone here call it Dixie. Just hearing people call it "the South" makes me vomit. Texas is part of...Texas. It's just Texas. It's its own country. There is Texas and Not-Texas. That's it really.
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.
bonecanoe86:. I find it odd that when people say southerners they only mean white people. They seem to exclude black people every time. I'm a southerner and when I hear the word Dixie or hear that song, I think of oppression, lynchings and people being reminded of "their place" and not to step outside of it.
@@beaujac311 "Dixieland Jazz" cannot possibly only refer to white Southerners so I think it's a matter of focus and perspective. It's quite possible for all these things to be true at the same time ... the good, the bad, the ugly, the reality.
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.
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)
I thought Maryland was considered a northern state, that’s why DC was placed between Maryland and Virginia, since it was supposed to be a sort of symbolic placing of the capital as being a joining between the north and south
As someone from the Deep South, it's always weird to me to hear that Maryland is the South. I think for most of us, Virginia and West Virginia are the cut-off. haha
Maybe there were remnants of a southern feel, oh, about 60 years ago, but I don’t get that feeling anymore. I live in DC. Much of Maryland is a part of that Baltimore, Annapolis, DC Megapolis. Hardly sleepy south.
The US has no public schools; schools are controlled and organized by each state. That Pennsylvania taught me that in no way implies that Alabama would teach that factoid the same way, or that any theory taught was necessarily correct (decimals were taught to be pronounced as a fraction with the numerator the power of ten, so 23.5 was supposed to be “twenty three and 5 tenths” as opposed to “point five” the way that God and NASA intended, to use the phrase that I used on my 6th grade student teacher trying to teach Science).
@@davidweihe6052it’s even more local than that. States set standards but what really gets taught is decided at a more local level. Still, standardized exams like AP have a huge influence on what gets taught
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.
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.
As a southerner this is very interesting to hear, as I feel most people who use the term “Dixie” down here are either older folk or racist lost causers
@@Apple-om5mr yeah as a southerner I associate both with the north vs south mentalities alot of folks hold onto, much older folks who don't get out much (no-judgment just clearly not up with the times), people who are looking for a southern identity or sense of pride (which can range from well-meaning to nationalistic), or the perhaps over emphasized and simplified but no less real racists "wanting the good ol days." That later combos commonly with the rest. I get people trying to spin it nice, but for me I'd rather use a different term (that isn't so painful for alot of folks here) to describe the area/ cultural pride.
@@Apple-om5mr As a guy from Alabama I personally haven’t had that experience, most people I know are willing to use the term Dixie as a synonym for the South without thinking twice about it, I mean I just graduated high school two years ago and we used that term all the time in school. I wonder if it varies by region
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.
If there was any "south" that resides in Oklahoma it's probably been blown away by the tornados already. Oklahoma and any term that refers to the south should not be put in the same sentence.
@@jeremyfisher8512 Ah yeah, because the Former Slave Territory, Populated by southern Indian Tribes, and known for its rednecks and ranchers isn’t southern… It’s the worst one, but nobody else’LL take them.
I feel like Dixieland is a bit like the Term Yankee in that it gets more narrow the closer you get to the area it purports to describe. From New England I always considered the states below the Mason-Dixon line. There is a Johnny Cash song where he asks the train to blow it's whistle when crossing it into the South so he can cheer.
Kentucky & Missouri both declared NEUTRALITY but supplied troops/materials to BOTH sides and many battles were fought on their respective soil. The Confederacy was hoping that Kentucky & Missouri would join the Confederacy, thus the 13 STARS on their Battle Flag, when in actuality there were officially 11 Confederate States.
@@jamesbednar8625This is just plain false. Neither state declared 'neutrality'. Both were Union states that never left the union. Neither state 'supplied' troops or materiel to the confederacy - only to the union. Some individuals from union states did join the confederate army (but not that many), but they were not supplied by the state.
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.
Shut your liberal having ass up. Most southerners righteously and proudly still associate it with Dixie and the CSA and we still proudly fly our stars and bars too, no matter how much you try and downplay it. You’re the type that gets bullied down here constantly. I’m sure as the gold old locals have told you, go move to California bro.
@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_being against the confederacy doesn’t make you a liberal you dipshit, great to know you lot are so proud in your loss in the only war you’ve been in
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.
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.
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!!
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.
Idk if North Carolina is different but my state of Alabama uses Dixie regularly it’s even on our license plates as our official nickname is “Heart of Dixie”
It’s so sad how white Americans and westerners more general think our entire history revolves around slavery and genocide when we were the ones who abolished slavery and genocide to begin with. Make you feel bad historiography is what I call and it started precisely in 1940s Germany through victors rewriting history. And unfortunately most people try to export it around the white western world
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.’
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.
“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
"By the hand, take me by the hand pretty mama "Come and dance with your daddy all night long "I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland "Pretty mama come and take me by the hand - The Doobie Brothers, Black Water
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.
Dixieland has become an alternate word to describe the Bible Belt as a whole. It, like everything else has evolved to take on a modern meaning. The term "Dixie" no more glorifies slavery and racism than being a Democrat given that the Democratic party was founded... In part... to protect slavery and then Jim Crow racism. It's a name...plain and simple! It's like saying that using the term New England means you support Burning people who aren't puritanical religious zealots. I find it odd that our Generation spends so much time nitpicking and looking for irrelevant cracks in the system but can't seem to fix the actual real problems in that system.
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
Mary-Land (as he pronounces it), is is clearly the originally intended and CORRECT pronunciation or the name. Anything else is simply ignorant and/or lazy.
@@kiterkun1606 the em-pha-sis is on the wrong syll-ab-le, as my grandfather would say. He's not really saying it wrong, but he's got too much stress. In my experience, either the Y is stressed (like he did) and the "land" syllable is unstressed, or the "Y" is unstressed (sounding like a soft I) and the "land" stressed. He's over-pronouncing it to my ears, like how an American saying "York-Shire" might sound to an Englishman
I don’t have a problem with Dixie. Just because it had a somewhat racial connotation does not mean it has to continue. If we can move past the history of the name you can, in a sense, reinvent, the meaning.
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!
Dear Electra, Interesting. I guess what you're describing is what happens when your state was a slave state that didn't secede. West Virginia and Delaware are sometimes seen as Southern and at other times Northern. Kentucky and Missouri are sometimes seen as Southern and at other times seemed to be mid-Western. Probably, this is because all five of you are Border States. Thank you.
@@DickyMorinYes, Kentucky was a border state. Cities along the Ohio River... especially extreme northern Kentucky near Cincinnati... might be more akin to the Midwest. But the rest of Kentucky? Nooo! We're southerners. Most of us trace our lineage back to Virginia. And nobody considers Virginia a midwestern state... although the Virginia area around D.C. has all the character and feel of the most cold-shoulder northern city.
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
To me Dixie is way to refer to the southern culture, dixieland is way to refer where the Dixie culture is located. May you all have a lovely rest of your day or night and take care.
Texas fought for their independence from Mexico. They are part of the South West states that also were part of Mexico. They really are not Dixie. Texas is the Wild West where Cowboys live.
If you know the history of money printing in the United States, and how trade was done between states, it makes far more sense that the name came from “Dixie dollars” than it does any other theory. We’re talking about a period of time where information takes months to travel and there is no internet or shared culture between states which believed themselves to be small countries with their own financial systems. The idea that it came from a children’s game played in New York, and somehow became widespread, makes no sense compared to the idea that traders and businessmen in the north would exchange their state printed money for “Dixie dollars”. It also makes no sense that the south would pick one guy out of 2 Englishmen who nobody even cared about outside of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and neither Mason nor Dixon had allegiance to anything other than the King of England.
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.
i wish it was that simple, but it's also been used by people protesting integration in the 50s, and more recently by some racist groups against basically all non white races, i think the flag would be lovely to have around for heritage purposes but the opinions of neighbors need to be considered too, that's a northerner with confederate ancestry's thoughts on it anyway
@@dguy0386 frankly, only the person who owns the flag opinion matters. It's their right to fly it regardless of how others feel. Personally I don't fly it, but I don't judge people who do because they don't mean it in a racist way. Anything can be used as a symbol of hate.
@@rexblade504 So you'd allow a neighbor to fly a Nazi flag if they meant it in a purely historical manner? Sorry, but that logic doesn't fly (unless it gets pulled down shortly afterwards). Others' opinions about the Confederate flag *absolutely* matter! Besides, how is someone supposed to determine just by looking at a flown Confederate flag that it's one of the rare cases when it is not being used in a racist manner?
@@Compucles It's his right as an American to fly what ever flag he pleases, I can't do anything to stop him. I may not like it, but it's not hurting anyone. And if a Confederate flag isn't being used in a racist manner, who cares what the owners personal beliefs are then?
Not a country music fan, but I was disappointed to see the Dixie Chicks drop Dixie, just to be politically correct. Like many of the comments I’ve read, I associate the term Dixie with more of a regional connotation and not with the confederacy. By the way, I was born and raised in the South. You can vilify anything. I’m proud of my southern heritage just as I am my American heritage. There were bad points to both, but I’d like to think we’ve matured past that. Focus on the good things of Dixie: jazz, fried…well, just about anything, Southern Belles.
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.
As a southerner i don't find the term offensive. And i also don't associate it with The CSA. The term Dixie is one i never hear from family or fellow southerners really in conversation I've only really heard it in the song and in popular American media.
🙋🏻♀️Hey, I live in the Land of Dixie in NC with family ALL thru the Deep South of Dixie. There I’m a fellow Southerner who used in a convo for you.🤭 Seriously though, I don’t find it offensive either, and I was being a “smart butt”. ✌🏻
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.
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!"
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
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.
There's a song I think I recall correctly that goes like this: Oh I wish I was in Dixie Look away, look away In Dixieland We'll take our stand To live and die in Dixie Look away, look away Look away down South in Dixie
I’m from the Dixieland area. Both Blues, Jazz, and Rock N Roll were all created in Dixieland by African Americans, but whites made all these genres more popular and took them over. Btw the photo at around 8:23 looks like it was taken in Greenup County or Boyd County in Kentucky (that’s where I’m from btw).
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.
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.
Yep. Chiming in from Texas which isn't considered a part of Dixie. I think the second explanation is the most likely due to how associated it is with the deep south from Louisiana to northern Florida.
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).
Born a southerner, 1 who has traveled extensively & lived all over the USA + in a few island nations. The south, the CSA & other similar names are associated with Dixie only by overlapping geography and government. The general concept of Dixie is a lifestyle comprised of lavish parties with live entertainment, held primarily in late summer evenings to escape the heat, serving copious quantities of food, beverage & feel good substances. In particularly substances & alcoholic beverages that couldn’t always be legally served in businesses. You mentioned jazz which was part of it, as was swing, but all forms of entertainment were incorporated. Dixie is where all the anecdotal evidence of society came to rest & be at peace with one another despite the differences expressed “during government hours”. People were free to mix with different races, beliefs or sexualities & during Dixie hours, religion & politics weren’t welcome, cause thats what got people killed. Dixieland on the other hand was a general expression of an area that remained at constant odds with the boundaries it found itself in, militant by day & cabaret by night. This is why Dixieland eventually became a theme park in Fayetteville, GA to celebrate this good times idealism. However, mixed signals of good times being achieved in an area associated with controversy, the true nature & spirit of Dixie became muddled by propaganda to destroy & erase everything resembling or associated with the south & the CSA. This is why Dixieland theme park changed its name to the ever so boring & uninspiring “Fun Spot”. Much like the boring & uninspiring new theme park name, “The South” has been popularized merely because there’s no escaping or erasing its geographic location. Despite its unforgettable & unforgivable legacy with human trafficking even the CSA had good ideas for how government should operate. Had they not seen humans as property, they would have been exceptionally complimentary & and integral part to the Union, giving the USA a 4+ party system rather than a 2 party electorate, the Federal Government would be smaller, acting as a moderator between states & as an ambassador on the world stage for everyone, rather than the contrary & controlling ruler the fed has become today. But cooler minds did not prevail, hindsight is 20/20 & the civil war occurred forever fracturing this great nation as seen in our daily struggles to move past racism, continuing to fight each other over ideas that only exist in the memory of those that died before any of us were born. Continuing to look favorably on our future, we as a country have birthed 4 new generations, making us halfway to the historical mark of being able to move on from our past transgressions. May the next 4 generations be generations of forgiveness.
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?
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).
Born and raised Mississippian. We know who truly doesn’t want the name to be forgotten. The only Dixie I don’t want to be forgotten is “Union Dixie” by Tennessee Ernie Ford!🇺🇸
Mississippian here and I can’t see the name Dixieland disappearing. Tons of songs with it, but also since when I say Dixieland I think of the South of what it is, I don’t correlate it with the Confederacy. Also my mom’s name is Dixie and I don’t want her name to disappear 😂
Dixie Alley is part of a region of enhanced tornadic activity extending between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains,[11] but tornadoes and outbreaks in the Dixie Alley region exhibit some statistically distinguishable characteristics from the more well known Tornado Alley.[12] Tornadic storms in Dixie Alley are most often high precipitation supercells due to an increase of moisture from proximity to the nearby Gulf of Mexico. The Dixie Alley tornadoes accompanying the HP supercells are often partially or fully wrapped in rain, impairing the visibility of the tornadoes to storm spotters and chasers, law enforcement, and the public. Increases of warmth and instability in conjunction with strong wind shear in the Dixie Alley region impacts the times when tornadoes form. In the traditional Tornado Alley, tornadoes most often form from the mid afternoon to early evening. Dixie Alley's instability can be maintained long after sunset due to being adjacent to the Gulf, increasing the frequency of intense nighttime and early morning tornadoes. There is also a less focused tornado season which tends to be most active in early spring and late autumn but can continue throughout the winter and into late spring, which can lead to complacency among residents of the region. The region often is subject to tornadoes much earlier than the general national peak from May and June, usually from February to Mid-April, and several notorious outbreaks have struck during the late winter and early spring and also in late fall. The complacency situation was noted after the 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak in February 2008 that hit the Dixie Alley killing 57 people, many people indicated that they had underestimated the threat of severe weather on that day since it was well before the peak of tornado season. A 2018 study found in the U.S. an overall eastward shift of tornado frequency and impacts - toward Dixie Alley. The study found relatively-lower tornado frequency and impacts in parts of the traditional Tornado Alley, especially areas from north-central Texas toward the Houston, Texas area, and relatively-higher tornado frequency and impacts in parts of the Mid-South, especially eastern Arkansas, the greater Memphis, Tennessee area and northern Mississippi - all areas near the heart of Dixie Alley (see especially Figure 4). Variations in climate patterns and teleconnections, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) can also have significant impacts on tornadic activity in the region from year to year. Climate change is also expected to affect tornado activity in the region.
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).
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
Good symbols can be uses for bad and bad symbols can be uses for good, it's a matter of how people in the current interpret the symbol in how its being used today, but if a group of people can claim another group's as their own and twist the meaning into something bad, why cant it be done the other way around and possibly reclaim positive symbols that were used for twisted purposes? Don't forget the history behind it but dont let a couple bad eggs ruin an even longer positive history
🤔 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
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.
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…
I’m from the south and all the term “Dixie” conjures up is old southern towns, nothing particularly positive or negative. And the term is almost never used outside of some businesses and songs, people just call this area “the south”.
Among jazz musician circles, they really don't like it when you refer to the traditional New Orleans style of jazz as "Dixieland jazz". They prefer "trad jazz". One of the guitar professors at my school always corrects when somebody says that lol
Not only did I make a video about the Mason-Dixon line, but I stepped all over it!
Mistor Beast.
Ask Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam about the Mason-Dixon Line. 😜 Lol
@@fanwatcherwatcherMr. Beat and Mr. Beast are two very different RUclipsrs. That letter "s" makes a big difference.
@@davea6314 Mistor Beast!
What a nice surprise to see you here! Hope there are more collabs in the future :)
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.
Technically texas is a part of dixie but it kinda feels like a cousin of the south rather than a sibling. People from one state over stick out like a sore thumb, and when I go over there I probably stick out just as much.
Dukes of Hazard was a phenomenal show!
Loved that show! It was a hit in Mexico too! I watched it as a kid as reruns dubbed to Spanish.
Texan, born and raised, and I've NEVER heard anyone here call it Dixie.
Just hearing people call it "the South" makes me vomit.
Texas is part of...Texas. It's just Texas. It's its own country. There is Texas and Not-Texas. That's it really.
@@mickeyrube6623, so is the United States part of Texas?
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.
i agree!!! i’m also northern and this is pretty much exactly what Dixie makes me think of
I'm from Alabama and I whole heartedly agree with this
dixie is only south love for me from nebraska. dollie and elvis. u have our support my friend
bonecanoe86:. I find it odd that when people say southerners they only mean white people. They seem to exclude black people every time. I'm a southerner and when I hear the word Dixie or hear that song, I think of oppression, lynchings and people being reminded of "their place" and not to step outside of it.
@@beaujac311 "Dixieland Jazz" cannot possibly only refer to white Southerners so I think it's a matter of focus and perspective. It's quite possible for all these things to be true at the same time ... the good, the bad, the ugly, the reality.
“He’s Alabama bound with a load of bananas, headin’ south across the --“
Not an American, but when i hear the term "dixie", i think of farmlands, the Mississippi Riverboats and warm Southern Hospitality.
You don't think of lynchings, the KKK and whites only signs.
Yeah, but there is also cities like Nashville, Richmond, Charlotte, Jackson, Montgomery, Austin, Tallahassee, Baton Rouge and Atlanta
I live in Dixieland and that’s exactly what I think of! I’m proud to live here ♥️
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.
I'm an aviation enthusiast and I have never heard that before. Interesting.
I work for a competitor and I always use the phonetic alphabet when talking about gates unless it’s a D gate 🙃 lol now I will use Dixie too
They it changed to David.
@@rand479m5 Aw.
@@rand479m5people are soft
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)
I thought Maryland was considered a northern state, that’s why DC was placed between Maryland and Virginia, since it was supposed to be a sort of symbolic placing of the capital as being a joining between the north and south
As someone from the Deep South, it's always weird to me to hear that Maryland is the South. I think for most of us, Virginia and West Virginia are the cut-off. haha
You may want to read up on why Pennsylvania is referred to as the Keystone State
Maybe there were remnants of a southern feel, oh, about 60 years ago, but I don’t get that feeling anymore. I live in DC. Much of Maryland is a part of that Baltimore, Annapolis, DC Megapolis. Hardly sleepy south.
@@yosephbuitrago897Nope. None of what you wrote is true.
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...
The US has no public schools; schools are controlled and organized by each state. That Pennsylvania taught me that in no way implies that Alabama would teach that factoid the same way, or that any theory taught was necessarily correct (decimals were taught to be pronounced as a fraction with the numerator the power of ten, so 23.5 was supposed to be “twenty three and 5 tenths” as opposed to “point five” the way that God and NASA intended, to use the phrase that I used on my 6th grade student teacher trying to teach Science).
@@davidweihe6052it’s even more local than that. States set standards but what really gets taught is decided at a more local level. Still, standardized exams like AP have a huge influence on what gets taught
Ask Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam about the Mason-Dixon Line. 😜 Lol
Gotta burn my boots. They touched yankee soil!😂
@@herschelwright4663 Lol
I can hear Bugs sing💀
@@herschelwright4663 I was going to say that!
It was a lot easier for the Warner Brothers animators to draw it than for Mason and Dixon to plot it.
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.
We always advance the flag of Dixie
Anyone from Austin is a damn yankee. Native rural Texan here
@@texasaggie8449 amen. That’s why I’ve fled to Stephenville.
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.
As a southerner this is very interesting to hear, as I feel most people who use the term “Dixie” down here are either older folk or racist lost causers
@@Apple-om5mr yeah as a southerner I associate both with the north vs south mentalities alot of folks hold onto, much older folks who don't get out much (no-judgment just clearly not up with the times), people who are looking for a southern identity or sense of pride (which can range from well-meaning to nationalistic), or the perhaps over emphasized and simplified but no less real racists "wanting the good ol days." That later combos commonly with the rest.
I get people trying to spin it nice, but for me I'd rather use a different term (that isn't so painful for alot of folks here) to describe the area/ cultural pride.
@@mckinneym.2743 I second that emotion.
@@Apple-om5mr As a guy from Alabama I personally haven’t had that experience, most people I know are willing to use the term Dixie as a synonym for the South without thinking twice about it, I mean I just graduated high school two years ago and we used that term all the time in school. I wonder if it varies by region
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.
Interesting perspective.
Interesting but very wrong
@@DashRiprock513 Explain?
If there was any "south" that resides in Oklahoma it's probably been blown away by the tornados already. Oklahoma and any term that refers to the south should not be put in the same sentence.
@@jeremyfisher8512 Ah yeah, because the Former Slave Territory, Populated by southern Indian Tribes, and known for its rednecks and ranchers isn’t southern…
It’s the worst one, but nobody else’LL take them.
*Way down yonder in the land of cotton,
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Do you associate this song with StarCraft 2 like I do? Lol
Way down south in the land of traitors
Nice
@@plunktun2384 the true version of the song
here from Mr. Beats channel, I like the collab!
I feel like Dixieland is a bit like the Term Yankee in that it gets more narrow the closer you get to the area it purports to describe. From New England I always considered the states below the Mason-Dixon line. There is a Johnny Cash song where he asks the train to blow it's whistle when crossing it into the South so he can cheer.
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.
Kentucky & Missouri both declared NEUTRALITY but supplied troops/materials to BOTH sides and many battles were fought on their respective soil. The Confederacy was hoping that Kentucky & Missouri would join the Confederacy, thus the 13 STARS on their Battle Flag, when in actuality there were officially 11 Confederate States.
@@jamesbednar8625Neutrality was Union by default because there was no secession
Still part of the south buddy.
@@jamesbednar8625This is just plain false. Neither state declared 'neutrality'. Both were Union states that never left the union. Neither state 'supplied' troops or materiel to the confederacy - only to the union. Some individuals from union states did join the confederate army (but not that many), but they were not supplied by the state.
Kentucky is a part of Dixieland even if it never rebelled.
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.
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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.
Shut your liberal having ass up. Most southerners righteously and proudly still associate it with Dixie and the CSA and we still proudly fly our stars and bars too, no matter how much you try and downplay it. You’re the type that gets bullied down here constantly. I’m sure as the gold old locals have told you, go move to California bro.
@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_being against the confederacy doesn’t make you a liberal you dipshit, great to know you lot are so proud in your loss in the only war you’ve been in
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.
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.
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.
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!!
Louisville also has a Dixie Highway. Even though I would never consider Kentucky a part of this "Dixieland."
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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.
Idk if North Carolina is different but my state of Alabama uses Dixie regularly it’s even on our license plates as our official nickname is “Heart of Dixie”
It’s so sad how white Americans and westerners more general think our entire history revolves around slavery and genocide when we were the ones who abolished slavery and genocide to begin with. Make you feel bad historiography is what I call and it started precisely in 1940s Germany through victors rewriting history. And unfortunately most people try to export it around the white western world
@@Zepellinthat’s Alabama for ya, hell you guys had the flag of a enemy state on your state flag for a long time
@@Apple-om5mr what, no? You’re just wrong.
@@Zepellinyea my b was thinking of Mississippi, idk why I get those two states confused
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.’
Based af.
jkarnold100:. They aren't just bad they are terrible. When they use those names as place names they know what they are implying.
@@beaujac311 exactly, that’s what I mean by ‘bad’ lol
@@jkarnold100 Okay.
@@beaujac311 ? No disrespect was intended in that sentence. I’m agreeing with you lol
I'm sure that this video won't spark any strong opinions from anyone(!)
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.
Well Dixie is where I live and if the word DIXIE offends you, then you have real problems.
“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
"By the hand, take me by the hand pretty mama
"Come and dance with your daddy all night long
"I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
"Pretty mama come and take me by the hand
- The Doobie Brothers, Black Water
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.
Or maybe they could just be "The D Cups"? I couldn't stand the "Dixie Chicks" and I still abhor them no matter what they call themselves.
Not really offended by the name Dixie Chicks or the paper cups with the Dixie name, but waving a Confederate flag invokes racism not southern pride.
The crossover event I didn't know I needed.
Here from Dixieland! (Virginia)
"You gonna pull those pistols or whistle dixie?"
-The Outlaw, Josey Wales
Dixie has NOTHING to do with the confederacy!!! It is a nice alternate name for the south!😀 Dixieland is usually used in the context of jazz music.
Dixieland has become an alternate word to describe the Bible Belt as a whole.
It, like everything else has evolved to take on a modern meaning. The term "Dixie" no more glorifies slavery and racism than being a Democrat given that the Democratic party was founded... In part... to protect slavery and then Jim Crow racism. It's a name...plain and simple!
It's like saying that using the term New England means you support Burning people who aren't puritanical religious zealots.
I find it odd that our Generation spends so much time nitpicking and looking for irrelevant cracks in the system but can't seem to fix the actual real problems in that system.
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
Mary-Land (as he pronounces it), is is clearly the originally intended and CORRECT pronunciation or the name. Anything else is simply ignorant and/or lazy.
Quite unfortunate news for Texas then @@indigop38
I’m sure you’re not wrong, but I think that it is a bit different from how Americans pronounce the state’s name.
Is something wrong with it?
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I would pronounce it the same way 100%. And kinda do not see a reason not to
@@kiterkun1606 the em-pha-sis is on the wrong syll-ab-le, as my grandfather would say. He's not really saying it wrong, but he's got too much stress. In my experience, either the Y is stressed (like he did) and the "land" syllable is unstressed, or the "Y" is unstressed (sounding like a soft I) and the "land" stressed. He's over-pronouncing it to my ears, like how an American saying "York-Shire" might sound to an Englishman
I don’t have a problem with Dixie. Just because it had a somewhat racial connotation does not mean it has to continue. If we can move past the history of the name you can, in a sense, reinvent, the meaning.
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!
Dear Electra, Interesting. I guess what you're describing is what happens when your state was a slave state that didn't secede. West Virginia and Delaware are sometimes seen as Southern and at other times Northern. Kentucky and Missouri are sometimes seen as Southern and at other times seemed to be mid-Western. Probably, this is because all five of you are Border States. Thank you.
Maryland is still a southern state. At least the Eastern Shore is. You’ll reliably find Confederate Flag’s flying during county fairs here.
@@DickyMorinYes, Kentucky was a border state. Cities along the Ohio River... especially extreme northern Kentucky near Cincinnati... might be more akin to the Midwest. But the rest of Kentucky? Nooo! We're southerners. Most of us trace our lineage back to Virginia. And nobody considers Virginia a midwestern state... although the Virginia area around D.C. has all the character and feel of the most cold-shoulder northern city.
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
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I just finished Mr. beats video that mentioned your video and my name is Jeremiah Norris and I love that Jeremiah Dixon was his name!! 😁😁
Would that make the North Masieland?
To me Dixie is way to refer to the southern culture, dixieland is way to refer where the Dixie culture is located. May you all have a lovely rest of your day or night and take care.
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If heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie, I don’t want to go
Texas fought for their independence from Mexico. They are part of the
South West states that also were part of Mexico. They really are not Dixie. Texas is the Wild West where Cowboys live.
If you know the history of money printing in the United States, and how trade was done between states, it makes far more sense that the name came from “Dixie dollars” than it does any other theory.
We’re talking about a period of time where information takes months to travel and there is no internet or shared culture between states which believed themselves to be small countries with their own financial systems.
The idea that it came from a children’s game played in New York, and somehow became widespread, makes no sense compared to the idea that traders and businessmen in the north would exchange their state printed money for “Dixie dollars”.
It also makes no sense that the south would pick one guy out of 2 Englishmen who nobody even cared about outside of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and neither Mason nor Dixon had allegiance to anything other than the King of England.
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.
i wish it was that simple, but it's also been used by people protesting integration in the 50s, and more recently by some racist groups against basically all non white races, i think the flag would be lovely to have around for heritage purposes but the opinions of neighbors need to be considered too, that's a northerner with confederate ancestry's thoughts on it anyway
@@dguy0386 frankly, only the person who owns the flag opinion matters. It's their right to fly it regardless of how others feel. Personally I don't fly it, but I don't judge people who do because they don't mean it in a racist way. Anything can be used as a symbol of hate.
At the end of the Civil War, President Lincoln asked the band to play, “Dixie.” “With malice toward none.”
@@rexblade504 So you'd allow a neighbor to fly a Nazi flag if they meant it in a purely historical manner? Sorry, but that logic doesn't fly (unless it gets pulled down shortly afterwards). Others' opinions about the Confederate flag *absolutely* matter!
Besides, how is someone supposed to determine just by looking at a flown Confederate flag that it's one of the rare cases when it is not being used in a racist manner?
@@Compucles It's his right as an American to fly what ever flag he pleases, I can't do anything to stop him. I may not like it, but it's not hurting anyone. And if a Confederate flag isn't being used in a racist manner, who cares what the owners personal beliefs are then?
Not a country music fan, but I was disappointed to see the Dixie Chicks drop Dixie, just to be politically correct. Like many of the comments I’ve read, I associate the term Dixie with more of a regional connotation and not with the confederacy. By the way, I was born and raised in the South. You can vilify anything. I’m proud of my southern heritage just as I am my American heritage. There were bad points to both, but I’d like to think we’ve matured past that. Focus on the good things of Dixie: jazz, fried…well, just about anything, Southern Belles.
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.
As a southerner i don't find the term offensive. And i also don't associate it with The CSA. The term Dixie is one i never hear from family or fellow southerners really in conversation I've only really heard it in the song and in popular American media.
🙋🏻♀️Hey, I live in the Land of Dixie in NC with family ALL thru the Deep South of Dixie. There I’m a fellow Southerner who used in a convo for you.🤭 Seriously though, I don’t find it offensive either, and I was being a “smart butt”. ✌🏻
@@cynsi7604 I truly love the south and NC is better than SC in my opinion lol
@@Lleesstreett I won’t tell anyone that you think so. 🤭 Me too!
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.
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
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!"
Hank said if heaven ain’t like Dixie then he don’t want to go
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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
Indiana had a few Winn-Dixie's in the store's heyday, across from Louisville, Ky. We used to get our groceries from a W-D in New Albany, Ind.
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.
There's a song I think I recall correctly that goes like this:
Oh I wish I was in Dixie
Look away, look away
In Dixieland
We'll take our stand
To live and die in Dixie
Look away, look away
Look away down South in Dixie
I’m from the Dixieland area. Both Blues, Jazz, and Rock N Roll were all created in Dixieland by African Americans, but whites made all these genres more popular and took them over. Btw the photo at around 8:23 looks like it was taken in Greenup County or Boyd County in Kentucky (that’s where I’m from btw).
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.
John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave.
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.
Dixie is basically just an allegory for the DEEP south (bama, Georgia, MS, Louisiana, northern Florida) but it really isn’t used anymore
Yep. Chiming in from Texas which isn't considered a part of Dixie. I think the second explanation is the most likely due to how associated it is with the deep south from Louisiana to northern Florida.
Dixie isn’t as controversial as you’d think. Many call the south Dixie, there’s even the Dixie mafia lol.
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I like the name Dixieland just since it avoids confusion with South America and it sounds cool.
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).
That's actually what I was thinking too. I'm from Oklahoma.
as someone from virginia, I have always seen the Dixie as the south, that began with the cotton boom and ended with the fall of the CSA
Born a southerner, 1 who has traveled extensively & lived all over the USA + in a few island nations. The south, the CSA & other similar names are associated with Dixie only by overlapping geography and government. The general concept of Dixie is a lifestyle comprised of lavish parties with live entertainment, held primarily in late summer evenings to escape the heat, serving copious quantities of food, beverage & feel good substances. In particularly substances & alcoholic beverages that couldn’t always be legally served in businesses. You mentioned jazz which was part of it, as was swing, but all forms of entertainment were incorporated. Dixie is where all the anecdotal evidence of society came to rest & be at peace with one another despite the differences expressed “during government hours”. People were free to mix with different races, beliefs or sexualities & during Dixie hours, religion & politics weren’t welcome, cause thats what got people killed. Dixieland on the other hand was a general expression of an area that remained at constant odds with the boundaries it found itself in, militant by day & cabaret by night. This is why Dixieland eventually became a theme park in Fayetteville, GA to celebrate this good times idealism. However, mixed signals of good times being achieved in an area associated with controversy, the true nature & spirit of Dixie became muddled by propaganda to destroy & erase everything resembling or associated with the south & the CSA. This is why Dixieland theme park changed its name to the ever so boring & uninspiring “Fun Spot”. Much like the boring & uninspiring new theme park name, “The South” has been popularized merely because there’s no escaping or erasing its geographic location. Despite its unforgettable & unforgivable legacy with human trafficking even the CSA had good ideas for how government should operate. Had they not seen humans as property, they would have been exceptionally complimentary & and integral part to the Union, giving the USA a 4+ party system rather than a 2 party electorate, the Federal Government would be smaller, acting as a moderator between states & as an ambassador on the world stage for everyone, rather than the contrary & controlling ruler the fed has become today. But cooler minds did not prevail, hindsight is 20/20 & the civil war occurred forever fracturing this great nation as seen in our daily struggles to move past racism, continuing to fight each other over ideas that only exist in the memory of those that died before any of us were born. Continuing to look favorably on our future, we as a country have birthed 4 new generations, making us halfway to the historical mark of being able to move on from our past transgressions. May the next 4 generations be generations of forgiveness.
In germany, "Dixie" is the name of a big port-a-potty company and became kind of generic.
So very similar to the US.
Oh yeah, but it is more "Dixi" if I remember it correctly.
like "Dixiklo" at least what me and my pals are calling it
dixie cups !
as someone from mississippi we love dixie
I hate the phrase of “nice slave owner”
oxymoron
Slave owner is a slave owner, no two ways about it
@coleyf7021 not really
When you still remember from old Southern books
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?
The dubious Midwest? The suspicious, doubtful Midwest. No one, but no one calls it that and is indeed the Midwest.
I luv it when other tubers I follow show up in other stellar educational content....😅
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
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."
Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia are also part of the South.
In what sense?
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).
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.
You've colabed with Mr. Beat? That's a surprise! Love his videos!
Born and raised Mississippian. We know who truly doesn’t want the name to be forgotten. The only Dixie I don’t want to be forgotten is “Union Dixie” by Tennessee Ernie Ford!🇺🇸
Mississippian here and I can’t see the name Dixieland disappearing. Tons of songs with it, but also since when I say Dixieland I think of the South of what it is, I don’t correlate it with the Confederacy. Also my mom’s name is Dixie and I don’t want her name to disappear 😂
Dixie Alley is part of a region of enhanced tornadic activity extending between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains,[11] but tornadoes and outbreaks in the Dixie Alley region exhibit some statistically distinguishable characteristics from the more well known Tornado Alley.[12] Tornadic storms in Dixie Alley are most often high precipitation supercells due to an increase of moisture from proximity to the nearby Gulf of Mexico. The Dixie Alley tornadoes accompanying the HP supercells are often partially or fully wrapped in rain, impairing the visibility of the tornadoes to storm spotters and chasers, law enforcement, and the public. Increases of warmth and instability in conjunction with strong wind shear in the Dixie Alley region impacts the times when tornadoes form. In the traditional Tornado Alley, tornadoes most often form from the mid afternoon to early evening. Dixie Alley's instability can be maintained long after sunset due to being adjacent to the Gulf, increasing the frequency of intense nighttime and early morning tornadoes. There is also a less focused tornado season which tends to be most active in early spring and late autumn but can continue throughout the winter and into late spring, which can lead to complacency among residents of the region. The region often is subject to tornadoes much earlier than the general national peak from May and June, usually from February to Mid-April, and several notorious outbreaks have struck during the late winter and early spring and also in late fall. The complacency situation was noted after the 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak in February 2008 that hit the Dixie Alley killing 57 people, many people indicated that they had underestimated the threat of severe weather on that day since it was well before the peak of tornado season.
A 2018 study found in the U.S. an overall eastward shift of tornado frequency and impacts - toward Dixie Alley. The study found relatively-lower tornado frequency and impacts in parts of the traditional Tornado Alley, especially areas from north-central Texas toward the Houston, Texas area, and relatively-higher tornado frequency and impacts in parts of the Mid-South, especially eastern Arkansas, the greater Memphis, Tennessee area and northern Mississippi - all areas near the heart of Dixie Alley (see especially Figure 4).
Variations in climate patterns and teleconnections, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) can also have significant impacts on tornadic activity in the region from year to year. Climate change is also expected to affect tornado activity in the region.
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).
The pic left out Oklahoma territory for part of the confederate states of america ( dixie land )
I’ve grown up in “Dixieland” and I’ve never heard that term till now and I’m 35
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
Good symbols can be uses for bad and bad symbols can be uses for good, it's a matter of how people in the current interpret the symbol in how its being used today, but if a group of people can claim another group's as their own and twist the meaning into something bad, why cant it be done the other way around and possibly reclaim positive symbols that were used for twisted purposes? Don't forget the history behind it but dont let a couple bad eggs ruin an even longer positive history
🤔 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
My late father used to call Israel Dixieland.
Don't know why though ...
Sounds like a registered Democrat
I was singing the Looney tunes version of "I wish I was in Dixie" all through your video, lol
I think many remember from Winn Dixie
Somebody is gonna say something about Oklahoma being southern and start an argument. I'm calling it now
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.
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…
I’m from the south and all the term “Dixie” conjures up is old southern towns, nothing particularly positive or negative. And the term is almost never used outside of some businesses and songs, people just call this area “the south”.
There is a section of my birth town of Lakeland, Fl. that is called Dixieland. In case anyone is interested.
Among jazz musician circles, they really don't like it when you refer to the traditional New Orleans style of jazz as "Dixieland jazz". They prefer "trad jazz". One of the guitar professors at my school always corrects when somebody says that lol