Nemrod, I am guessing that by "Dixie" and "High Plains" you mean TEXAS.
However Texas is not and never was Dixie. Texas is Texas, a dry and barren place the annexation of which was first the cause of the Mexican War followed closely on by the cause of the U.S. Civil War (as a slave state).
Dixie is from Louisiana to Georgia, but more specifically Mississippi and Alabama.
There are simply no high plains in Dixie!
LOL, you would be mistaken then. By the slash (/) I mean two locations (actually three), I own a home and property in three states so you would be completely wrong. I am trying to consolidate, sounds like you could use some consolidation also.
Note the name and flags on the stern.
As to the location of "Dixie" your wrong again:
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origins of this nickname remain obscure. According to A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (1951), by Mitford M. Mathews, three theories most commonly attempt to explain the term:
The word "Dixie" refers to a privately issued currency from banks in Louisiana[1]. These banks issued ten-dollar notes, labeled "Dix" (French for "ten") on the reverse side. These notes are now highly sought-after for their numismatic value. The notes were known as "Dixies" by English-speaking southerners, and the area around New Orleans and the Cajun-speaking parts of Louisiana came to be known as "Dixieland". Eventually, usage of the term broadened to refer to most of the Southern States.
The word preserves the name of a kind slave owner on Manhattan Island, a Mr. Dixy. (Slavery was legal in New York until 1827.) His rule was so kindly that "Dixy's Land" became famed far and wide as an Elysium abounding in material comforts.
"Dixie" derives from Jeremiah Dixon of the Mason-Dixon line defining the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania (the northern boundary of Dixie).
Therefore to state that Louisiana is not a part of Dixie is apparently the result of a geographical confusion on your part what with all your world travelling. BTW, many consider the East Texas and Big Thicket area a part of Dixie. I would agree that most of the huge state of Texas belongs to other geogrpahic and political subdivisions thus the diverse and interesting history and geography of the great state of Texas. Note the single star on that flag and do some research on the Bonnie Blue flag. Much is shrouded in the fog of time but the single star has long been a symbol of defiance used for ages including most recently by the Confederate States but also during the strange and almost bizzare Florida Republic of which the Florida Parishes of Louisiana are named. Any more history you want to know, I actually did graduate the 6th grade--remarkably.
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