n. [总称]美国南部各州
a. 美国南部

Dixie \Dix"ie\ (d[i^]ks"[y^]), 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.

Syn: . ※

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.
[PJC]

{whistle Dixie} to talk unrealistically; to engage in
unrealistic or overoptimistic fantasies; as, that ain't
just whistlin' Dixie.
[PJC]