Are you from Dixie?

[creekbend]

Thank you so much for posting. I was raised in East Tennessee, worked for many years in Florida and now I live in North Carolina where I will probably live out my life. The scene of The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier at the end was an excellent ending. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[jinman]

Dixie is a wonderful place to be born and live. However, the rest of the USA is a wonderful place also, with breathtaking sights to draw you in and overwhelm the senses. Dixie is more than the beauty of places, it's certainly an attitude of friendliness and relaxed way of life. If you feel the same way about our great country, I'll like you without checking your place of birth.:thumbsup:

 

[bradm64]

Just a worthless piece of trivia, but the Mason Dixon line actually is the Southern Boundary of Pennsylvania.

 

[smstonypoint]

Just a worthless piece of trivia, but the Mason Dixon line actually is the Southern Boundary of Pennsylvania.

Some additional trivia. I had always assumed that the term "Dixie" was derived from Dixon of the Mason-Dixon Line. However, the derivation is not clear cut according to Wikipedia: Dixie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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.[4] These banks issued ten-dollar notes,[5] 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 most of the Southern States.
2. The word preserves the name of a "Mr. Dixy", a slave owner on Manhattan Island[citation needed], where slavery was legal until 1827. 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 (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.)

Steve

 

[smstonypoint]

Dixie is a wonderful place to be born and live. However, the rest of the USA is a wonderful place also, with breathtaking sights to draw you in and overwhelm the senses. Dixie is more than the beauty of places, it's certainly an attitude of friendliness and relaxed way of life. If you feel the same way about our great country, I'll like you without checking your place of birth.:thumbsup:

Well said.:thumbsup:

Steve

 

[sam5570]

that was so good i guess it's all about where you grew up but i been all over the usa and as the old saying goes there is no place like home and i have not found any place so far that i would rather be than south west virgina.

 

[creekbend]

that was so good i guess it's all about where you grew up but i been all over the usa and as the old saying goes there is no place like home and i have not found any place so far that i would rather be than south west virgina.

My thoughts and viewpoint also. Although we live in NC now, every time I go back to visit my relatives back home in East Tennessee where I grew up, my thoughts and memories overwhelm me. My inner Soul is filled with such peace, and I am content.