DIXIE, a popular name given to the Southern States of the United States which lie south of the Mason and Dixon line. There are various reasons given for the name, one of the most plausible being that it had its origin in money issued by a bank in New Orleans before the Civil War. On the back of the ten dollar bills was printed the French word Dix, with other lettering in French, hence the South, particularly Louisiana, became known as the land of Dixies and thereupon Dixie land. It was about this time that Daniel Emmett, negro minstrel and song writer, while looking out on the cold dreary streets of New York and wishing he were in Dixie, picked up his violin and composed that rollick ing song, which has been called the national anthem of the South, "Away down South in Dixie."