- A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War.(U.S)synonyms: Dixieland, Dixie Land, the Confederacy, Confederate States of America, the South.
- 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.