. . . get out of the South.
For fear of offending northerners who have infiltrated their county, a few folks in Hanover County, Virginia want to change the name of their "Dixie Days" celebration. Link. Excerpts:
To hear some newcomers to Hanover County, Virginia, tell it, "Dixie" is a five-letter four-letter word.
They want to change the county's annual Civil War commemoration from "Dixie Days" to something else, to avoid, among other things, offending Yankees who have moved into the county. . .
The origins of the word "Dixie" are somewhat obscure, but most authorities agree that it was taken from the $10 bank note issued before the war by banks in New Orleans, when French was widely spoken. The notes were called "dixies" for the French word for "10," and because the notes were widely circulated in the South, the term was eventually applied to the region.
The word was later popularized by Daniel D. Emmett, an Ohio minstrel, when he wrote the song "Dixie Land" in 1859. Abraham Lincoln often asked his band to play the tune.
