So what are you saying, then? If New York wants to go around singing “Dixie”, they are welcome to it. By the way, who wrote it and where was he/she from?
Daniel Decatur Emmet, was born in Ohio. According to Ripley, Dixie land was in Long Island New York.
Bryant’s Minstrels premiered “Dixie” in New York City on 4 April 1859.
Daniel Decatur Emmett and he was from my wife’s home town of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.