Ask Alabama: Where does the word "Dixie" come from?

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  • Followers of Ask Alabama wanted to know the most likely origin of the word "Dixie".
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  • @ianstradian
    @ianstradian 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Citizens bank of Louisiana was located at 214 rue Royal ( 214 Royal street) the current location of Brennan’s in the French Quarters.
    The word Dix is a French word for Ten so it would be pronounced Deces, but English speakers didn’t know how to pronounce this so it got transmuted to Dixie.
    So Alabama might be the heart of Dixie, the birth place is at 214 Rue Royal New Orleans Louisiana.

    • @rodneyboehner3007
      @rodneyboehner3007 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually the word "Dixie" comes from "Donkey Dix" which is what Democrats ate (and still do eat today) all day long as a political party.

  • @Chris-lh7wj
    @Chris-lh7wj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I used to shop at Winn Dixie before they eventually got bought out, and also played in Dixie Youth little league baseball. Of course the word is slowly being erased, along with most of the culture and history in the south.

    • @drnstjhn
      @drnstjhn ปีที่แล้ว

      white people? talking about their history being erased? lol cry me a dixie river. and its actually because history is getting more exposed. cant get away with certain shit anymore like you could 50 yrs ago

  • @elnidodelmuerto
    @elnidodelmuerto 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You pronounce Dix as “Deez”

    • @amos6207
      @amos6207 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Diss" actually

    • @youhaveavirus533
      @youhaveavirus533 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Les lamas cracheurs grammer Nazis

    • @jutoa6458
      @jutoa6458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Deez nuts XD sorry i had to

    • @boogiemcsploogie
      @boogiemcsploogie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dix nuts

    • @p4triotg4ming29
      @p4triotg4ming29 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@amos6207 “dicks” actually

  • @buddyclem7328
    @buddyclem7328 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Mason-Dixon Line also defines the border between Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and interestingly enough, West Virginia exists because we were granted statehood on June 20th, 1863 in exchange for joining The Union. Also, "dix" is pronounced DEE.

    • @rodneyboehner3007
      @rodneyboehner3007 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually, "Dixie" comes from the word "Dix" as in "Donkey Dix"--the thing that Democrats in the South then and Democrats today eat all day long as a political party. We all know this is true.

  • @youhaveavirus533
    @youhaveavirus533 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Alabama is not called Dixie it’s everything down south is called Dixie

    • @rssvvp4447
      @rssvvp4447 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea but we are the “heart of Dixie”

  • @carlthornton3076
    @carlthornton3076 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are right! You aint whistling DIXIE!!! ALABAMA is the HEART of DIXIE!!!

  • @evan4672003
    @evan4672003 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It originated in New. Orleans.

  • @chucksuter6551
    @chucksuter6551 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    im sorry, but i was a history major and honestly deal with it, the term dixie comes from the mason dixon line. just like when people say north of dixie, they are saying north of the line. maryland is called the old line state because it drew the sharp jarring difference in beliefs around the civil war, which if the massachusetts regiment hadn't interfered, maryland would have joined the confederacy as the third state to secede. Dixie was also the nickname given to the plantation owned by jeremiah dixon which was in the grasslands, also considered the chesapeake low country in somerset county md

    • @Benjamin72297
      @Benjamin72297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah, I actually believe that you are a history major based off of how condescending you are.

    • @anzgh3145
      @anzgh3145 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Benjamin72297 im sorry, but..i didnt notice the condescendence! i just read his theory and it makes sense...it could well be both!..i think YOUR ego felt condescendence...as an outsider...i didn..he said im a history major..! that was IT! And you actually dont even say "he SOUNDED condescending...but that he IS condescending! based on one phrase he wrote not his WHOLE PERSONA OR LIFE? lol..why condescending? cuz someone might have an inferiority complex, even for a minute...cheers! lighten up...u ended up looking bad, not the "teacher" lol :)

    • @Benjamin72297
      @Benjamin72297 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anzgh3145 honestly, deal with it.

  • @jones3bama
    @jones3bama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Check out Mason Dixon

  • @thegreenheadfather
    @thegreenheadfather 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You pronounce it Deez

    • @gazinta
      @gazinta 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Deez nuts?

  • @vanillalemonfox3673
    @vanillalemonfox3673 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Magic city, hot Lana, or the big ezzy”
    I have lived in Alabama my whole life and I’ve never heard any of those nicknames except Dixie, but that’s it.

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rondy Fox Hotlanta is Atlanta.

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Big Easy is New Orleans.

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not sure how you've never heard these.

    • @vanillalemonfox3673
      @vanillalemonfox3673 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mirza Ahmed Idk, I guess people have stopped saying the nicknames?

    • @buddyclem7328
      @buddyclem7328 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Magic City refers to Miami, but it used to refer to Birmingham.
      www.miami.com/miami-news/why-is-miami-called-the-magic-city-heres-the-real-story-176999/

  • @drippylad3973
    @drippylad3973 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ask keeping the good genes

  • @oilchange6542
    @oilchange6542 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where's Arkansas? We're sooo southern! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

  • @richybeats4747
    @richybeats4747 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sounds like crypto lol

  • @davesteller6301
    @davesteller6301 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Seriously? Wasn't it from the name Dixon? As in the Mason-Dixon line. I've always believed that

  • @ratinajar9570
    @ratinajar9570 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why you sound like alpharad

  • @jmartin4204
    @jmartin4204 ปีที่แล้ว

    Of course you would not know how to say it you are an American and Americans are sick when it comes to language even the language that is supposed to be your official language English . I am not French but speak not for a while but still remember and it is DIX said as DEECE