Brewer's: Dixie Land

Nigger land. Mason and Dixon drew a line which was to be the northern limit of slavery. In the third quarter of the 19th century the southern part of this line was called Dixie or nigger land.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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