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   Dixie (dĭksˈy̆), prop. n.
   1. A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War. [U.S.]
   
   Syn. -- Dixieland, Dixie Land, the Confederacy, Confederate States of America, the South.
   
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   2. a song popular in the Confederate states during the American Civil War, and still played as a nostalgic anthem by those patriotic to the American south.  It was written by Daniel D. Emmett in 1859.
   
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   whistle Dixie to talk unrealistically; to engage in unrealistic or overoptimistic fantasies; as, “that ain't just whistlin' Dixie”.
   
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