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To: wideawake
A lyrically marginal sectional anthem, from the losing section no less, as the national anthem?

Actually Dixie was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett from Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

14 posted on 04/18/2008 10:12:30 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Actually Dixie was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett from Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

Indeed. But it did not become the signature song of Ohio.

18 posted on 04/18/2008 10:37:36 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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