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[Andy Bach]

“ Its use as a doting nickname for the Confederacy was popularized by “I
Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land,” a minstrel song published in 1860 and usually
performed in blackface. The song is credited to Daniel Decatur Emmett, a
white man from Knox County, Ohio, though the scholars Howard and Judith
Sacks have suggested that Emmett stole the tune from the Snowdens, a family
of freed slaves who performed and farmed around Emmett’s home town.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/why-the-chicks-dropped-their-dixie

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Andy Bach
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