The origin of the term "Dixie" was the result of a ten dollar
bill issued by the Citizens Bank of New Orleans in the early
1800s. Ten is Dix in French. English speaking Mississippi
riverboat men pronounced the French DIX phonetically in English.
They would tell each other they were "headin down river to New
Orleans to get them some of those DIXIES." (They were going down
river to the land of the Dixie, down to Dixieland, or Dixie!)
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