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How Did Dixieland Get its Name and How Did the Nickname for the Southern United States Originate?

April 15, 2020 by Karen Hill

The nickname “Dixieland” didn’t come from the Mason-Dixon Line, the boundary between the free and the slave states.

Rather it’s from the word dixie, which was what southerners called a French ten-dollar bank note of New Orleans that was already in use in 1859.

Back then, Daniel Emmet, a northern black man, wrote and introduced his song “Dixie,” which spread the South’s nickname and somehow became a battle song for the Confederacy.

Why are the Southern United States called “Dixieland”?

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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