alabama is known as the heart of dixie!
what does dixie mean in the phrase the heart of dixie!
2006-08-27 11:49:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Other - United States
A region of the southern and eastern United States, usually comprising the states that joined the Confederacy during the Civil War. The term was popularized in the minstrel song "Dixie's Land," written by Daniel D. Emmett (1815-1904) in 1859.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dixie
2006-09-02 13:23:34 · answer #1 · answered by away right now 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heart Of Dixie Alabama
2016-11-09 19:29:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being raised in Alabama I would know "Dixie is a term used for the southern states. So pretty much the heart of the south probably so named because the little white houser of the confederacy is located here as well as the home of the confederate president. Both are now mueseums in Montgomery.
2006-08-27 12:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the Dixie cup
2006-09-03 13:36:48 · answer #4 · answered by dreamweaver021557 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ever hear of the mason-dixon line? a figurative line that separated the North from the South during the Civil War. Dixie is a term for the southern states. remember that song Dixieland?
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2006-08-27 11:56:31 · answer #5 · answered by East Texan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Dixie" means the South. Nobody knows where the term actually came from.
2006-08-27 11:56:01 · answer #6 · answered by dark_phoenix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was related to the Mason-Dixon Line, one man thought it had French origins, since the Dixie cup comes from a French word meaning little cup.
2006-08-27 20:34:34 · answer #7 · answered by Life 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mason Dixon servers who maped a line called the mason Dixon north of the line was yankeeland south of the line were southerners. So that's where dixieland came from.
2006-08-27 14:25:39 · answer #8 · answered by moonwalker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The South (south of the Mason-Dixon line)
2006-09-03 20:48:35 · answer #9 · answered by ebemdpa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mason and Dixon were two 18th c surveyors who lent their name to the Mason-Dixon line, south of which the future confederate states lay.
2006-08-27 12:31:50 · answer #10 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋