Heart of Dixie
Speech parts
1. Heart of Dixie - Noun
2. Heart of Dixie - Proper noun
Meaning
a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
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The Mexican American Experience : An Encyclopedia (2003) (ISBN 0-313-31643-0) *Mohl, Raymond A. "Latinization in the Heart of Dixie: Hispanics in Late-twentieth-century Alabama" Alabama Review 2002 55(4): 243–274.
How did a woman, raised in segregated Alabama ("The Heart of Dixie" is still part of the state's license plates), a sorority girl at the University of Alabama, seemingly the average career woman of her place and time.
If the old adage that “All politics is local” applies in Tip O’Neil’s Massachusetts, it applies doubly in the Heart of Dixie.