| DIXIE The origin of the term "Dixie" was the result of a ten dollar bill issued by the Citizens Bank of New Orleans in the early 1800s. Ten is Dix in French. English speaking Mississippi riverboat men pronounced the French DIX phonetically in English. They would tell each other they were "headin down river to New Orleans to get them some of those DIXIES." (They were going down river to the land of the Dixie, down to Dixieland, or Dixie!) You are listening to a recording of "Dixie" by Louis Armstrong. |
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