Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bogan. So today we're going to talk about driving Dixie down.

For those that don't know, there is a highway network in the United States called the Dixie Highway. It runs from Michigan to Miami, north south.

This highway system came to being in the 1900s, early 1900s,

1915-ish, around there.

It was the brainchild of Carl G Fisher, whose first project was the Lincoln Highway running east-west.

It's pretty clear that somebody whose first project was the Lincoln Highway is probably not choosing the name Dixie to glorify it.

It was just the region it was headed.

For those overseas who may not know, Dixie is the area of the country that was

south of the Mason-Dixon line. The Mason-Dixon line was the dividing line

between the north and the south. South of the Mason-Dixon line, well that's where slavery was legal.

Now this came into being in the early 1900s.

This wasn't named this in the 1950s and 1960s when a lot of things went up that had to do with Dixie that were really not historical based. It was more about opposition to civil rights and

just sending a signal, y'all better stay in your place. And that's just so you know a

lot of the Confederate monuments that people are talking about that are getting torn down

That's when they went up. They didn't actually go up like right after the Civil War

And it was a hundred years later and it was really just as a symbol to black Americans in the South.

So why am I talking about all this?

What is the Dixie Highway? What does this matter today?

It's a historic network of roads because it was built by different jurisdictions.

Okay? But it doesn't get tourism like Route 66 or Route 1 or any of the

other ones. This one just doesn't get it. I can't imagine why. Can you imagine people stopping to take photos along

this route today glorifying the Dixie Highway? Probably not. Nobody wants to bring up images of the Little Rock Nine or the Alabama bus boycott.

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