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John Jackson Benson in 1911. The name of the community was derived from a Native American name. [7] [8] The community has roots that date back to the Muscogee tribe. [9]There is a local legend about a lone Muscogee man named Kowaliga that lived on the shore of Kowaliga creek, after being rejected for love by a women.
Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States. ... Unlike the survey conducted by John Shelton Reed, who ...
Various theories exist regarding the origin of the term "Dixie". According to Robert LeRoy Ripley (founder of Ripley's Believe It or Not!), "Dixieland" was a farm on Long Island, New York, owned by a man named John Dixie. He befriended so many slaves before the Civil War that his place became a sort of a paradise to them. [full citation needed]
The States' Rights Democratic Party (whose members are often called the Dixiecrats), also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States, active primarily in the South.
Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Dixie Chicks, was killed in a head-on crash in El Paso, Texas, police said Saturday. She was 65. Lynch was traveling eastbound on U.S. 62 when another car ...
Bass player Lynch (pictured center, above) founded the Dixie Chicks — now officially known as the Chicks — with Robin Lynn Macy and sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer (née Erwin) in 1989.
Formerly The Dixie Chicks, Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson were at the top of their game in the early 2000s, having sold more than 25 million records since their debut album ...
The company was founded by its namesake, ... Dixie, Sparkle, and Vanity Fair. ... Fred C. Koch was a founder of the anti-communist John Birch Society in 1958. [124]