I don't think I knew anyone else knew the words to Dixie.

its a requirement for living in the south

Turns out you're wrong.

Dixie was written by a Yankee

"Dixie" was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and premiered in September of 1859 in New York.

Although best known as the song adopted by the Confederacy, "Dixie" was also Abraham Lincoln's favorite song, and it was played at his inauguration. Even though Abe Lincoln loved and supported the song, Dan Emmett was ostracized in the North for writing a song associated with the South.

And although the song is credited to Emmett, there is some questions about its full origin. Emmett had indicated that the melody was partially inspired by a tune his mother sung to him as a child, while others believe a similar tune was sung around plantations and around the Mississippi River for several generations. In the original version shown for the second line of the first verse below, the words "cinnamon seed and sandy bottom" were referred to by the soldiers when they reached an area in Missouri where they found catfish and sassafras for tea for sale.


Hardly a stereotypical "Yankee" if you ask me.......

I was born and raised in St. Louis and know the words to Dixie.

Isn't St. Louis Dixie anyway?

Of course it is, kinda like how Fargo, ND is dixie too right?

National Expansion
Free States --- ---Slave States
Connecticut --- -- Delaware
Massachusetts -- ---Georgia
New Hampshire -- --Maryland
New Jersey -- --North Carolina
New York -- --South Carolina
Pennsylvania -- ---Virginia
Rhode Island -- ---Kentucky (1792)
Vermont (1791) -- ---Tennessee (1796)
Ohio (1803) -- ---Louisiana (1812)
Indiana (1816) --- --Mississippi (1817)
Illinois (1818) --- --Alabama (1819)
Maine (1820) -- ---Missouri (1821)
Michigan (1837) --- --Arkansas (1836)
Iowa (1846) --- --Florida (1845)
Wisconsin (1848) --- ---Texas (1845)
California (1850)
Minnesota (1858)
Oregon (1859)

Last time I checked, St. Louis was in Missouri, which makes it Dixie.

I hate trying to format something on GC, it never looks the same when you post it.

no, Missouri is not Dixie......Just like Texas is not Dixie. They are in the South, but they are not Dixie.

Mason-Dixon line runs from Point A to Point B.

Through PA and MD I think, right?

Is Virginia in Dixie? Is Mississippi?

Virginia certainly is. The line runs between MD and Virginia. Please don't make me post a map.

In other news, let's not feed the trolls, kids.

Missouri is about as southern as New Jersey. im not going to say there arent southern people there, but jsut because nelly sings about country grammar or Missourri was a slave state, doesnt make it southern. Florida was also a slave state, but look at anything pesides the panhandle and you will clearly see its not southern in the least bit. Thats what yall dont get, being Southern isnt about being below the Mason-Dixon line, thats just one aspect of it.

HA! HA! [/nelson voice]

Yanno, growing up there I never considered it south, but rather midwest. But since I have left there, people keeep referring to me as being from the south. It's on the Mason/Dixon line. So is it really south? I don't think so.