(July 6, 2020 at 5:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: 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
Here's an example of the negative connotation with the use of Dixie.
https://www.civilwarheritagetrails.org/c...-land.html
I wonder what the wife of an old friend of mine is going to do. She has to be close to 70 and has lived with the name Dixie a little too long to change it up now, I would think.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
