(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(July 6, 2020 at 5:11 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I love my best friend John, I have known him since the early 2000s. I posted this ad a friendly dig to him because he is a country music fan, but the truth is, while I am teasing him with this, he has broken stereotypes of the middle of the country I grew up with.
I am still not a fan of country music, but I do like empathetic people, like Woody Guthrie, Dolly Parton and the Dixie Chicks. But he is responsible for me loving my first country music song with Margo Price "About To Find Out".
FYI - The Dixie Chicks dropped "Dixie" from their name due to everything that's currently going on.
I was unaware that ‘Dixie’ has bad connotation, so I looked up the origin.
Back when individual states printed their own currencies, Louisiana issue a ten dollar note that had ‘dix’ (French for ‘ten’) printed on the back. These notes came to be called ‘dixies’, and were said to be from ‘Dixie-land’.
So, originally, there wasn’t anything especially odious about the term ‘Dixie’, but meanings change over time.
(There are some other origin stories for the word, but the above seems the most likely.)
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
