Dixie
prop. n.- A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.
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a song popular in the Confederate states during the American Civil War, and still played as a nostalgic anthem by those patriotic to the American south. It was written by
Daniel D. Emmett in 1859.
whistle Dixie
to talk unrealistically; to engage in unrealistic or overoptimistic fantasies;

