Why do they call it dixie

Few if any references to Dixie as a region have been dated before One theory concerning the American South and "Dixie" is also one of the first to be debunked by many historians. Some sources claim that in the days of the state banking system, certain banks in Louisiana produced currency bearing both English and French denominations.

The ten dollar notes were informally called "Dixs" or "Dixies", based on the French word for "ten. Another popular theory connecting Dixie with the Southern United States concerns a very real border called the Mason-Dixon line. Originally ordered by the British colonial government, the Mason-Dixon line delineated the border between Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of Delaware and western Virginia.

Eventually this line would also mark the division between free and slave states. The Mason-Dixon line was in existence for many years before the first known references to the South as Dixie. While many residents of the region may have used the Mason-Dixon line as an unofficial political or philosophical boundary, there have been no documented uses of Dixie in contemporary newspapers or literature until the publication of the songs Johnny Roach and Dixie's Land in The third popular theory actually has its origins in the North, not the South.

These minstrel songs were often written in a crude form of black patois, mimicking the language of slaves. In , Emmett composed a minstrel song called Dixie's Land , or Dixie. In the song, Emmett describes a slave's longing for an idyllic plantation.

Some sources say the song was inspired by a real slaveowner named Johan Dixy, who was noted for his benevolent treatment of slaves on his Manhattan plantation called Dixy's Land.

His CityBeat story also writes that few people knew "what the monument was about" in , when a motorist knocked the Lee monument off its foundation. Rosen also notes that "the true irony and oddity about all this is that the monument is across the street from Woodhill Cemetery… which has a true Civil War memorial — and a state historical marker — dedicated to area soldiers who fought and died for the Union in the Civil War.

Twenty-one of them are buried in the cemetery. Duke says that most of the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected Confederate memorials during the era of Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation, decades after the Civil War.

Duke says they "honors treason, sanctions slavery, solicits sympathy for a South that never was and seeks to perpetuate a myth of southern nobility, of a 'Lost Cause' in America's deadliest war. When the context of the times in which these statues were erected is considered, the history the statues tell continues to expose the black heart of racism, the white claim of racial superiority and a hatred we see today. Search Query Show Search.

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