Napoleonrules
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Dixie was not a thing before the Civil War, it did not mean "the South". It was a song by a Northerner and it was popular throughout the nation, he was embaressed when the South took it as an unofficial "theme" during the war.Don't forget that, by quirk of historical accident, there already is a line pretty much defining the boundary of the Confederate culture with the non-Confederate culture. The Mason-Dixon line happened to be pretty close to the boundary of the range of malarial mosquitos (the area where more malaria-resistant Africans were able to endure the low lying ground near the rivers better than whites) and thus the area where slavery really took deep root. This may be why "Dixie" was a thing even before the Civil War.