[Physicist]

[snip] It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. Popular speech, especially since the Missouri compromise of 1820 (apparently the first official usage of the term “Mason’s and Dixon’s Line”), uses the Mason-Dixon line symbolically as a cultural boundary between the Northern United States and the Southern United States (Dixie). [end]

I've long called the northern U.S. "Masie".

[SunkenCiv]

That makes sense. :’) OTOH, a lot of folks call me “lasie”. ;’)