Sentence examples for Dixie from inspiring English sources

It follows rag-time, blues, dixie, jazz, hot cha-cha and the boogie-woogie, which surely originated in the jungle.

Then I remembered that Loach's Kes had its soundtrack dubbed to make it more comprehensible to soft southerners - in England, not in Dixie.

Producer Dixie Linder, who worked with Norris on his first film, Broken, said the journey from stage to screen was surprisingly smooth.

Dixie Wills One of the most enjoyable (and cheap as chips) holidays that I've ever had was cycling from bottom to top (to catch the prevailing wind) of the Outer Hebrides using the bunkhouses (gatliff.org.uk) that run the length of the islands.

The Republicans' steady march through the state capitols and governor's mansions of Dixie continued in Mississippi, where they appear to have captured the state's House of Representatives from the Democrats for the first time since the aftermath of the civil war.

In "Whistling Past Dixie", he argues that Democrats should stop pandering to Southerners and concentrate instead on regions where they are not instantly dismissed as godless baby-killers.

The retailer was buoyed by sales of large electrical appliances.Winn-Dixie, a supermarket chain operating primarily in the American South, filed for bankruptcy protection with debts of $1.9 billion.

For example, Dixie-Narco, a subsidiary of Maytag that makes vending machines, hit a crisis when Coca-Cola, one of its largest customers, suddenly slashed orders.

DI-xiecratism, like DI-xie; Di-XI-cratism, like De-MO-cratism; or Dixie-CRAYT-ism?Dixiecratism The ideology, notably a belief in racial segregation, of a group of conservative politicians in the southern states of America who seceded from the mainstream Democratic Party in 1948 in opposition to the party's policy of extending civil rights.

They park and hang-out in the car park of Winn-Dixie, Wal-Mart's struggling competitor it is quiet there and they can avoid their parents who are shopping at the local supercentre.John Miller Bushnell FloridaA big jobSIR – Just how big is Maria Ramos's task at Transnet, you ask (Face value, April 17th).

Democrat Dixie Lee Ray became one of the country's first women governors (the second elected in her own right and not simply to succeed her husband) when she won the election in 1976, and from the 1980s through the early 21st century the Democratic Party held the governorship, though sometimes by the slimmest of margins.