Example sentences for: dixie

How can you use “dixie” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The much-hyped New South may have shed Dixie's overt racism and acquired the same neon surfaces as the rest of America.

  • In Dixie Rising , Applebome's eminently balanced portrait of today's South, the veteran Atlanta-based reporter for the New York Times turns this debate on its head.

  • If we went off-post to school, we adjusted to Southern folkways, standing at football games for the "national anthem," as "Dixie" was called, even though we knew that our anthem was the one heard at the parade grounds on weekends.

  • Dixie Rising 's account of the South's political rise covers more familiar ground: massive population shifts toward the Sun Belt that have tipped the electoral balance; the adoption by the Republican Party of Southern political stances, most of them rooted in a visceral hatred of government; and the ascent to power of a Southern president, vice president, House speaker, Senate majority leader and majority whip, and GOP chairman.

  • "I don't expect you to believe me, but they're all thanked on that Dixie Chicks CD."


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