# Downloads of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down are on the rise **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261 "2015-06-23T17:23:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/1 "2015-06-23T17:23:29Z")
ITunes reports that downloads of the Band’s original version and Joan Baez’s cover of the song are at an all time high. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/2 "2015-06-24T00:03:52Z")
In other news sales of confederate flags are sky rocketing: [Retailers pull Confederate flags--after sales soar](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sales-of-confederate-flags-are-soaring-153357290.html#) ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/3 "2015-06-24T00:15:48Z")
It’s a damn good song. It’s my mother’s favorite song. I remember her singing it to me when I was little. It’s a shame so many dumbasses are embracing it but I can’t really regret anything that makes the Band a little richer. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/4 "2015-06-24T00:18:03Z")
I do love the Band’s version of that song. And all the songs on that album. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/5 "2015-06-24T00:45:24Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > anything that makes the Band a little richer. Both of them. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/6 "2015-06-24T02:33:03Z")
Meh. Whatever. Sales of Chik-Fil-A skyrocketed after their owner was like “No fags!” Gay marriage laws keep passing. Racism won’t be over, but the removal of the rebel flag from Charleston will be a much bigger blow than a bunch of dickheads blasting “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” from their iPhones. (I am sure, though, that **Merneith** ’s mom is not a dickhead) ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/7 "2015-06-24T06:02:26Z")
In other news, the Koch brothers company, Georgia Pacific, vows to halt the sale of Dixie paper cups. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/8 "2015-06-24T06:19:19Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > In other news sales of confederate flags are sky rocketing: [Retailers pull Confederate flags--after sales soar](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sales-of-confederate-flags-are-soaring-153357290.html#) My arm chair theory is the vast majority of the flags are being bought in bulk by opportunist that plan to resell these flags at an inflated rate. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/9 "2015-06-24T06:29:31Z")
Winn-Dixie grocery stores announce they are changing their name to Winn-Mason. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/10 "2015-06-24T06:31:26Z")
that is sad sad because it is not at all suprising ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/11 "2015-06-24T14:01:21Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > In other news, the Koch brothers company, Georgia Pacific, vows to halt the sale of Dixie paper cups. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/12 "2015-06-24T14:08:43Z")
Well now this: [Warner Bros to stop sales of the Dukes of Hazzard’s General Lee featuring Confederate flag.](http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/warner-bros-bans-dukes-of-hazzard-car-with-confederate-flag-20150624) A treasured piece of my childhood just died. And I’m ok with that. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/13 "2015-06-24T14:22:24Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > My arm chair theory is the vast majority of the flags are being bought in bulk by opportunist that plan to resell these flags at an inflated rate. I’m not prepared to equate the two just yet, but I am given to understand there is a reasonably healthy black market for Nazi memorabilia in Germany. People want their symbols. It’s a shame the Southern Pride crowd clings to a symbol with which the most generous association is merely treason. There is plenty of other stuff they can point to–world class swamps, NASCAR, moonshine, fireflies, New Orleans, Dr. King, NASA, honeysuckle. Loads of stuff. They don’t even have to admit to Texas if they don’t want to. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/14 "2015-06-24T14:58:15Z")
Does any one (besides Texans) admit to Texas? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/15 "2015-06-24T15:35:07Z")
Can somebody start at the beginning and explain to me what the OP is supposed to mean? I get that sales of an old song have increased. That happens sometimes. Occasionally one-hit wonders get hot again 20 years later, that sort of thing. But what else is going on? What does the OP (or others) assume is behind this particular uptick? And why does it matter versus the hundreds of other random upticks & downticks in sales of this or that thing? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/16 "2015-06-24T15:40:27Z")
It means there’s some resistance to putting the Confederate battle flag back into the museum. You’ve surely heard something about that, haven’t you? Or maybe it’s about how much fun it is to go “Na, nana nana na, nana nana nana nana na …” while lamenting that the money’s no good. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/17 "2015-06-24T15:50:55Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Can somebody start at the beginning and explain to me what the OP is supposed to mean? I get that sales of an old song have increased. That happens sometimes. Occasionally one-hit wonders get hot again 20 years later, that sort of thing. > > But what else is going on? What does the OP (or others) assume is behind this particular uptick? And why does it matter versus the hundreds of other random upticks & downticks in sales of this or that thing? It implies that there is backlash against the backlash currently going on against the flying of the confederate flag. It’s a stupid “Southern Pride” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/18 "2015-06-24T15:50:57Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Or maybe it’s about how much fun it is to go “Na, nana nana na, nana nana nana nana na …” Sure you’re not thinking of _Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’_? Different band. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/19 "2015-06-24T15:52:52Z")
You can still buy all the [Dixie Crystals sugar](http://www.noise-to-signal.com/archives/dixie.jpg) you want, because their logo isn’t really a Confederate flag. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261/20 "2015-06-24T15:53:32Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > It means there’s some resistance to putting the Confederate battle flag back into the museum. You’ve surely heard something about that, haven’t you? > > Or maybe it’s about how much fun it is to go “Na, nana nana na, nana nana nana nana na …” while lamenting that the money’s no good. This still doesn’t have enough context for me to make any sense of it. I surely haven’t heard anything about museums and flags recently. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > It implies that there is backlash against the backlash currently going on against the flying of the confederate flag. It’s a stupid “Southern Pride” thing. Thank you. That makes complete sense. I had no idea any such backlash was more prevalent today than at any other time in the last decade, but OK. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downloads-of-the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-are-on-the-rise/723261.md?page=2)