Dixie Land, or Land of the Dixies

[Glenn]

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of this nickname remains obscure. The most common theories according to A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (1951) by Mitford M. Mathews.

 

The word "Dixie" refers to currency issued first by the Citizens State Bank in the French Quarter of New Orleans and then by other banks in Louisiana. ($10 notes issued before 1860 by the Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans) These banks issued ten-dollar notes labeled Dix on the reverse side, French for "ten". The notes were known as "Dixies" by southerners, and the area around New Orleans and the French-speaking parts of Louisiana came to be known as "Dixieland". Eventually, usage of the term broadened to refer to the Southern states in general. Reference wiki

 $10 notes issued before 1860 by the Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans

 

[ThomasPowers]

I was born in Arkansas, around dawn, in mid December.

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

I think that was the beginning of the term Dixie, however when the War Between the States broke out, The term Dixie referred to all the states south of the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between slave and non slave states, all states south of that line were considered to be in Dixie.

[Glenn]

The post was WHY it was called Dixie.

[SLAG]

Fellow iron bangers,

The French phrase  "dix dollars",  means five ten dollars, in English. 

The French  "dix"  is pronounced "dee",  and not "dix".

Just sayyin',

SLAG.

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

The History Channel has three possible reasons why the South was/is called Dixie. I'm thinking the Mason-Dixon line is still in the running.

https://www.history.com/news/why-is-the-south-known-as-dixie