>How “Dixie” arose as a nickname for the South is unknown, but the term may reference the Mason-Dixon Line, a boundary drawn between Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1767.
It's a fucking mystery? "Smithsonian"
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-dix-note-and-southern-freedom/
>>How “Dixie” arose as a nickname for the South is unknown, but the term may reference the Mason-Dixon Line, a boundary drawn between Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1767.
It's a fucking mystery?
"Smithsonian"
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-dix-note-and-southern-freedom/
(post is archived)