# Where's Dixie ? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171 "2007-06-15T21:39:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![quilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/839c29/32.png) [@quilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quilter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/21 "2007-06-15T23:25:52Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] I wish I were in Dixie. Oh, wait, I am. Woohoo! I’m American by birth, Southern by the grace of…ok, I’m Southern because I moved to the DC area after college, and figured that taxes were lower in Virginia than the District or Maryland. But that doesn’t work as well as a slogan. [/QUOTE] Or, paraphrasing the Indigo Girls, “When God made me born a Yankee, She was teasin’”… On second thought, that’s not a paraphrase, a deliberate mis-quote. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/22 "2007-06-16T04:24:16Z")
So this is a big inside-mod joke or am I just posting while blind? Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria, kiddie pool, 50 gallons milk chocolate pudding, 30-minute clock, discuss… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/23 "2007-06-16T05:23:48Z")
Last I heard, Dixie was “way down south,” and for some reason it was looking away. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/24 "2007-06-16T05:35:26Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] Last I heard, Dixie was “way down south,” and for some reason it was looking away. [/QUOTE] Yahh, when we was invading the north we had to “look away” down south to remember our [honies](http://home.att.net/~kenhitch/leigh.jpg). Damn wankees. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/25 "2007-06-16T05:49:14Z")
I don’t know about you, but my dixie wrecked. ☹ Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/26 "2007-06-16T11:57:57Z")
I personally think it’s a shame that there aren’t more conservatives online calling themselves “Becky” and “Twinkle.” Alas, poor Twinkle. Come to think of it, wasn’t “Twinkle” William F. Buckley’s nickname during his Army years? Or perhaps I am thinking of someone else. I would totally date a conservative named “Becky.” She just sounds like she’d look incredibly hot in a gingham summer dress. Dixie’s fine, by the way. She’s still safely tucked away in my mom’s cedar chest. I had no idea she was also a well-known conservative; but then there’s a lot I don’t know about the contents of that cedar chest. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/27 "2007-06-16T14:03:04Z")
Isn’t **Sampiro** duty-bound to make an appearance in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/28 "2007-06-16T14:19:36Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] Come to think of it, wasn’t “Twinkle” William F. Buckley’s nickname during his Army years? Or perhaps I am thinking of someone else. [/QUOTE] Close, Bill F. Buckley was lovingly refered to as Twinkle-toes. Minor difference though. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/29 "2007-06-16T14:35:48Z")
The OP is obviously a reincarnation of Al Jolson. Originally posted by **Jack Yellen** : Are you from Dixie I say from Dixie where the fields of cotton beckon to me I’m glad to see you tell me I’ll be you and the friend I’m longing to see Are you from Alabama Tennessee or Caroline Any place below the Mason Dixon Line Are you from Dixie I say from Dixie 'cause I’m from Dixie too. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/30 "2007-06-16T14:42:02Z")
[QUOTE=monkeyonmyback] The question is, why are conservatives held to a higher standard than liberals ? [/QUOTE] No, that is most definitely **not** the question, but rather _the answer._ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/31 "2007-06-16T16:26:26Z")
[QUOTE=kidchameleon] Isn’t **Sampiro** duty-bound to make an appearance in this thread? [/QUOTE] Wherever [she was](http://www.clubone-online.com/chablis.asp), there was [del]Eden[/del] Dixie. Irrelevant, but an interesting trivia question nonetheless that I haven’t had an occasion to ask anyone: What was the shared occupation of [Charles] Mason and [Jeremiah] Dixon of Mason-Dixon Line fame? (Hint: their main interest/occupation had almost nothing to do with surveying or cartography.) They were English astronomers and seismologists who took the job for Calvert & Penn to make money when their research funds ran out. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/32 "2007-06-16T16:38:31Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Or Moon. [/QUOTE] And R O C co-cola. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/33 "2007-06-16T16:46:40Z")
The term “Dixie” doesn’t have anything to do with the Mason-Dixon guy Dixon though does it? Because that would seem to imply that he spent most of his time on that job standing south of Mason, for some reason. Also, if that were true, then the North would naturally be referred to as “Macy,” and I have never heard of such a thing. _Macy’s where I want to be! Golly gee! Golly gee! Get me out of Tennessee and take me back to Macy!_ –from “([Take Me Home to] My) Sweet Macyland Home” by Bizarro Stephen Foster ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/34 "2007-06-16T17:23:45Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] The term “Dixie” doesn’t have anything to do with the Mason-Dixon guy Dixon though does it? [/QUOTE] It’s actually unknown where the term comes from, though the two most likely theories are Mason-Dixon line and the Louisiana [Dix Notes](http://www.coliseumsquare.org/coliseum_square_images/new_orleans_history_images/dixie2.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/35 "2007-06-16T18:04:41Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] Doesn’t this violate the “no cross-board war encouraging” rule? [/QUOTE] Did he even tell us which other board he was talking about? Kind of hard to have a board war if you don’t know where the battlefield is. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/36 "2007-06-16T21:43:46Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] Did he even tell us which other board he was talking about? Kind of hard to have a board war if you don’t know where the battlefield is. [/QUOTE] What if they gave a board war and nobody came? We’re left whistling Dixie in the dark… ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/37 "2007-06-16T22:27:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Wherever [she was](http://www.clubone-online.com/chablis.asp), there was [del]Eden[/del] Dixie. Irrelevant, but an interesting trivia question nonetheless that I haven’t had an occasion to ask anyone: What was the shared occupation of [Charles] Mason and [Jeremiah] Dixon of Mason-Dixon Line fame? (Hint: their main interest/occupation had almost nothing to do with surveying or cartography.) They were English astronomers and seismologists who took the job for Calvert & Penn to make money when their research funds ran out. [/QUOTE] This made absolutely no sense until I went back and re-read “(Charles) Manson” the right way. My guess before reading the spolier was “song writer? jailbird? I don’t know”. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/38 "2007-06-17T01:01:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sold! To the red hatted lady.] Not to mention red neck white man booster. [/QUOTE] Yeah, if you don’t get that booster every seven years you get the urge to sell your pickup truck, marry a homosexual, and toss your gun in a landfill. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/39 "2007-06-17T01:25:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] It’s actually unknown where the term comes from, though the two most likely theories are Mason-Dixon line and the Louisiana [Dix Notes](http://www.coliseumsquare.org/coliseum_square_images/new_orleans_history_images/dixie2.jpg). [/QUOTE] Damn. I thought it had to do with those cute paper cups. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2007, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171/40 "2007-06-17T01:28:27Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Yeah, if you don’t get that booster every seven years you get the urge to sell your pickup truck, marry a homosexual, and toss your gun in a landfill. -Joe [/QUOTE] Don’t you mean, move to Canada? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-dixie/408171.md?page=3)