Trivia 12-14-16 Dixie

[JOHN42768]

There appears to be many, many, many alternate meaning for the word "Dixie"

1. (Military) chiefly military a large metal pot for cooking, brewing tea, etc
2. (Military) a mess tin
Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dixie
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dixie
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While no one knows for certain how the term Dixie came to represent the South, theories include that it is derived from the name of a relatively kind slave owner named Dix or from the word Dix, which at one time referred to $10 notes in Louisiana. Another possibility is that it is a shortened version of the Mason-Dixon line, which delineated the slaveholding portion of the nation.
Source: https://www.reference.com/geography/south-called-dixie-98afa26d7d9da9b0
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What does Dixie mean?

Pronounce
Dixie
[ 2 syll. di-xie, dix-ie ] The baby girl name Dixie is also used as a boy name, though it is far more popular for girls. It is pronounced as DAYKSiy- †.

1: Dixie has its origins in the French language. It is used largely in English and French. The meaning of Dixie is 'American South; ten'. The first name could be derived from Dixie, the nickname of the American South as used by Daniel D. Emmett in his song Dixie (1859). The origin of this usage could be inspired by ten-dollar bills issued in French-influenced New Orleans which had the French word dix printed boldly on each side. Another possible source for the place nickname could be ultimately from one of the surveyors of the Mason-Dixon line which symbolizes a boundary between the American North and the American South. Alternatively, the first name could be of Old Norse origin.
Source: http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Dixie/f




Meanings and history of the name Dixie: | Edit
Dixie is a nickname for the southern United States. 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:

1. The word "Dixie" refers to privately issued currency from banks in Louisiana. These banks issued ten-dollar notes, labeled "Dix", French for "ten", on the reverse side. These notes are now highly sought-after for their numismatic value. The notes were known as "Dixies" by English-speaking southerners, and the area around New Orleans and the Cajun-speaking parts of Louisiana came to be known as "Dixieland". Eventually, usage of the term broadened to refer to most of the Southern States.
2. The word preserves the name of a "Mr. Dixy", a 'kind' slave owner on Manhattan Island, where slavery was legal until 1827. His rule was so kindly that "Dixy's Land" became famed far and wide as an elysium abounding in material comforts.
3. "Dixie" derives from Jeremiah Dixon of the states Mason-Dixon line which defined the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and, for the most part, free and slave (a small portion of Delaware, a Union border state, and slave state up to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, lay north of the boundary.)

The states of Dixie include West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Kentucky.
Source: http://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/dixie

As to which two are being looked for, I will guess
!) Southern states below the Mason-Dixin line
2) $10 note issued in La.
It is in all what you want to guess, even the question states meaning is unsettled,as all are correct .

 

[JOHN42768]

I purposely left out Dixie cups

Edit - Thank goodness.

Hoosier

 

[bdietzler73]

I found three references but I think this one is the most accurate:

Dixie refers to the currency issued by the Citizens State Bank in New Orleans. Other banks in the state of Louisiana soon followed issuging the currency. English speaking Southern people started calling them Dixies and the area in which the bank notes were issued started was known as Dixieland. Eventually Dixieland referred to all the Southern states.

 

[lelliott19]

A farm owned by John (or Johan) Dixie located at Long Island, New York (or alternately Harlem on Manhattan Island.) Depending on which version, John/Johan Dixie either befriended slaves and they saw his farm as a kind of paradise OR Mr. Dixie sold his slaves south, where their work was much harder and they longed to be back on Dixie's land. Either way, it is supposed that Dan Emmett had heard the Dixie ditty while touring the south and subsequently wrote it into an entire song. wiki/Dixie_(song)

 

[UCVRelics]

Finally one I didn't have to lookup. Dixie originated from the $10 bill issued in Louisiana and was know as the Dix. Happy Holidays to all.

 

[UCVRelics]

Knowing how these questions go I figured I would peek. and what did I find, Yankees with slaves. Say it aint so, what would the church ladies say.

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:

1. The word "Dixie" refers to currency issued first by the Citizens State Bank (located in the French Quarter of New Orleans) and then by other banks in Louisiana.[6] These banks issued ten-dollar notes,[7] 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.
2. 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.
3. "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 outside the "Dixie" side of the survey line.)

 

[2nd Dragoon]

There are several theories...

According to Robert LeRoy Ripley (founder and originator of "Ripley's Believe It or Not"), Dixie has nothing to do with the south. "Dixieland" was originally located on a farm in Long Island, New York. This farm was owned by a man named John Dixie. He befriended so many slaves before the Civil War, his place, "Dixie's Land," became a sort of a paradise to them.


Another theory posits that it derives from the term, "Dix Notes," which referred to ten dollar bills in Louisiana.


James H. Street, in his book, "Look Away! A Dixie Notebook," as condensed in the August 1937 Readers Digest, page 45, says that "Johaan Dixie" a Haarlem (Manhattan Island) farmer and slave owner, upon deciding that his slaves were not profitable because they were necessarily idle during the New York winter, sent them to Charleston, where they were sold. Subsequently, the slaves were busy constantly, and, longing for the less strenuous life on the Haarlem farm, would chant, "I sho' wish we was back on Dixie's lan'. Lawdy Lawd. If we wuz all back on Dixie's lan'." Dan Emmett had toured the south, and had heard the Dixie ditty. Dixie did not catch on when Emmett introduced it in New Orleans in the late 50s, but a few years later at the secession convention in Montgomery Alabama the bandmaster was inspired to adapt Dixie, stepped up the tempo, and it became an instant success, and the anthem of the South.

Take your pick...

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

[P]erhaps from the nickname of New Orleans, from dixie a ten-dollar bill printed there, from French dix ten]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dixie

 

[ami]

The worthless ten-dollar bills, issued in New Orleans, which were called "dixies" because of the French word dix (ten) printed on them.


Source: Best-Loved Songs of the American People (Denes Agay) page 385

Edit - Players offered a number of other answers. All of them were supported by at least one source, so all will be counted as correct.

Hoosier