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Dixie is a historical nickname for the Southern United States. == Origin of the name == According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', the origins of this nickname remain obscure. According to ''A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles'' (1951), by Mitford M. Mathews, three theories most commonly attempt to explain the term: #The word "Dixie" refers to privately issued currency originally from the Citizens State Bank (located in the French Quarter of New Orleans) and then other banks in Louisiana.〔(''"Dixie" Originated From Name "Dix" An Old Currency'' - New Orleans American May 29 1916, Vol. 2 No. 150, Page 3 Col. 1 ) Louisiana Works Progress Administration (WPA), LOUISiana Digital Library〕 These banks issued ten-dollar notes,〔(Ten Dollar Note ) George Francois Mugnier Collection, LOUISiana Digital Library〕 labeled "Dix", French for "ten", on the reverse side. The notes were known as "Dixies" by English-speaking southerners, and the area around New Orleans and the French-speaking parts of Louisiana came to be known as "Dixieland". Eventually, usage of the term broadened to refer to the Southern states in general. #The word preserves the name of a "Mr. Dixy", a slave owner on Manhattan Island, where slavery was legal until 1827 (see History of slavery in New York). His rule was so kind that "Dixy's Land" became famed far and wide as an elysium abounding in material comforts. #"Dixie" derives from Jeremiah Dixon, a surveyor of the Mason-Dixon line which defined the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and, for the most part, free and slave states. (Delaware, a Union border state, and slave state up to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, lay south and east of the survey line.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dixie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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