"take a Dixie"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM, George Thompson
<george.thompson at nyu.edu> wrote:
> took a Dixie

Following Larry and context, my WAG is that it means

"kicked the bucket"

When things "go south (to Dixie)," they go bad in some way.

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-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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