Dixie (July 4th)

Written & published in 1859 by Northern vaudevillian Dan Emmett, "Dixie" became the rallying cry of the South, the unofficial Confederate Anthem. The origin of the word "Dixie" is attributed either as a reference to all those states below the Mason-Dixon line (dividing Maryland & Pennsylvania)...or to the Southern monetary currency known as a "Dix"(10). The former seems more likely.