Hooray for Dixie!!!👍❤️✌️

absolutely despise the confederate, but this is soo firree

Beautiful. Thank you!

Bravo!!!👍❤️✌️

These guys are gems!!!👍❤️✌️

Away down south in the land traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators

Long Live The South

Brilliant love this, the music and the history entangled in it.

Gawd Foxworthy would be counting the brain cells in that room :-) x

Away down south in the land of traitors!

Great band. Love and Peace from U.K.

Great music, wonderful band.

Texas

I'm from bali island indonesia... this band inspire me to start playin violin..i just started last week.. thank you very much 🙏🙏❤

爱来自中国

G B A!

Long live the Union

super !

Bury me in Southern Ground

Always a pleasure to see the gang. Sincere Christmas greeting to all here

Long live Dixie Land from the Heart of Tennessee

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Love this song. Salute, from Argentina.

I think that the comments from everyone are very interesting. Some are very insightful and most are well-meaning. I really enjoyed reading everyone’s thoughts on the song and the events leading up to the Civil War and wanted to respond to what I see as a group of people focused on understanding such an important subject. Just a few opinions/comments: SECESSION: HOW AND WHY THE SOUTH ATTEMPTED TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES The secession of Southern States led to the establishment of the Confederacy and ultimately the Civil War. It was the most serious secession movement in the United States and was defeated when the Union armies defeated the Confederate armies in the Civil War, 1861-65. CAUSES OF SECESSION Before the Civil War, the country was dividing between North and South. Issues included States Rights and disagreements over tariffs but the greatest divide was on the issue of slavery, which was legal in the South but had gradually been banned by states north of the Mason-Dixon line. As the US acquired new territories in the west, bitter debates erupted over whether or not slavery would be permitted in those territories. Southerners feared it was only a matter of time before the addition of new non-slaveholding states but no new slaveholding states would give control of the government to abolitionists, and the institution of slavery would be outlawed completely. They also resented the notion that a northern industrialist could establish factories, or any other business, in the new territories but agrarian Southern slaveowners could not move into territories where slavery was prohibited because their slaves would then be free . Slavery details: There were almost 700 thousand slaves in the US in 1790, which equated to approximately 18 percent of the total population, or roughly one in every six people. By 1860, the final census taken before the American Civil War, there were four million slaves in the South, compared with less than 0.5 million free African Americans in all of the US. Of the 4.4 million African Americans in the US before the war, almost four million of these people were held as slaves; meaning that for all African Americans living in the US in 1860, there was an 89 percent* chance that they lived in slavery. Some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War. In 1830, the year most carefully studied by Carter G. Woodson, about 13.7 percent (319,599) of the black population was free. Of these, 3,776 free Negroes owned 12,907 slaves, out of a total of 2,009,043 slaves owned in the entire United States, so the numbers of slaves owned by black people over all was quite small by comparison with the number owned by white people. American Indians owned slaves - the number of enslaved people held by Cherokees at around 600 at the start of the 19th century and around 1,500 at the time of westward removal in 1838-9. (Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, she said, held around 3,500 slaves, across the three nations, as the 19th century began.) Slavery in Africa: It was the Africans who enslaved their fellow Africans, selling some of these slaves to Europeans or to Arabs and keeping others for themselves. Even at the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than they sent to the Western Hemisphere. This pattern was not confined to West Africa, from which most slaves were sent to the Western Hemisphere. In East Africa, the Masai were feared slave traders and other African tribes - either alone or in conjunction with Arabs - enslaved their more vulnerable neighbors. Over all that expanse of time and space, it is very unlikely that most slaves, or most slave owners, were either black or white. Slavery was common among the vast populations in Asia. Slavery was also common among the Polynesians, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere enslaved other indigenous peoples before anyone on this side of the Atlantic had ever seen a European. Scholar Thomas Sowell said: More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States. Some things to ponder: After the Civil War the slaves were free but not allowed to vote. So they were equal but not really in the eyes of the sanctimonious Northern states. President Lincoln offered the job of being in command of the Union forces to Robert E. Lee - a plantation owner and slave holder. At the Civil War’s end - Lincoln pardoned the Southerners - The Confederacy’s President Jefferson Davis was not punished, nor was the top general of the Southern forces - Robert E. Lee. I believe the George Washington said that at any given point in time that 1/3 of his slaves were too young or sick or to work and 1/3 too old to work. Slavery - Not a vary viable business plan is it? I think it would have collapsed of it’s own deficiencies without a Civil War. First Blood (There is a very good book titled “First Blood” - great read). Regarding who violently started the war - On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the United States, and by February 2, 1861, six more states followed suit. Southern delegates met on February 4, 1861, in Montgomery, AL., and established the Confederate States of America, with Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis elected as its provisional president. Confederate militia forces began seizing United States forts and property throughout the south. With a lame-duck president in office, and a controversial president-elect poised to succeed him, the crisis approached a boiling point and exploded at Fort Sumter. In Charleston, the birthplace of secession, tempers are on edge. A delegation from the state goes to Washington, D.C., demanding the surrender of the Federal military installations in the new “independent republic of South Carolina.” President James Buchanan refuses to comply. Charleston is the Confederacy’s most important port on the Southeast coast. The harbor is defended by three federal forts: Sumter; Castle Pinckney, one mile off the city’s Battery; and heavily armed Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan’s Island. Major Anderson’s command is based at Fort Moultrie, but with its guns pointed out to sea, it cannot defend a land attack. On December 26, Charlestonians awake to discover that Anderson and his tiny garrison of 90 men have slipped away from Fort Moultrie to the more defensible Fort Sumter. For secessionists, Anderson’s move is, as one Charlestonian wrote to a friend, “like casting a spark into a magazine,” On March 1, Jefferson Davis orders Brig. Gen P.G.T. Beauregard to take command of the growing southern forces in Charleston. On April 4, Lincoln informs southern delegates that he intends to attempt to resupply Fort Sumter, as its garrison is now critically in need. To South Carolinians, any attempt to reinforce Sumter means war. “Now the issue of battle is to be forced upon us,” declared the Charleston Mercury. “We will meet the invader, and the God of Battles must decide the issue between the hostile hirelings of Abolition hate and Northern tyranny.” No one was killed in the battle. Two Union soldiers died when firing a canon to salute the flag and the canon exploded. Bottom line: I love the song (as did President Lincoln) - so we can take his lead and all sit back and enjoy it. I believe the South had every right to secede (even though we all know now in today’s world that slavery is repulsive and immoral). I don’t see Southerners of the time as traitors or evil (75% of Southerners did not own slaves). At that time in history one’s primary allegiance was to the state and secondarily to the USA. They were patriots supporting their states.

God save our nobel king

Possibly one of the only good things in US culture!!

Yankee trolls coping and seething in this comment section God bless the south (the best nation on earth)

Fun fact: when a group of American soldiers arrived to the trenches in ww1, the British band waiting for them played this song because it was the only American song they knew.

In Yugoslavia too

Yeah playing a song of the rebels and traitors who broke off the Union

Why do they hate the declaration of independence too?

A beauty!👍❤️✌️

The best ever! 👍❤️✌️and I don’t care a damn!!!

Instead of arguing and pointing fingers at each other can we all just appreciate how well they did at preforming this song?

Hail Mason, & Dixon.Englishmen know to draw a line betwixt them and troublesome northerners. :)

I’m not gonna lie. As a seventeen year old in this nation I see a lot of tension between the voting parties, even just in my own school. If we keep taking this direction I’m afraid history will repeat itself. I truly hope my generation won’t keep it going as we enter the workforce but I don’t see much chance in that either.

You fought all the way Johnny Reb

Hooray for the Bonnie Blue Flag! ❤👌✌👍💪

The second guy on the right is general Lee?

Oh wow, bluegrass puts a smile on one's face and is the perfect escape from all the crap that's happening in the world now!

As a southerner I applaud the heritage but the preservation of the union is more important than anything. Love the song

Donald Trump and Elon Musk forever ❤❤❤

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wonderfull ❤❤❤

apparently these people still think that slavery, taking other peoples lands, killing natives, lynching, etc., was all a God-forgiven sin, allowed for the few oligarchs that ruled the south - I am glad they lost, and I am also glad the US empire is crumbling too

Haide cu mai multa putere respect from Romania

Long Live Dixie, support from Connecticut

WAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF TRAITORS, RATTLES SNAKES, AND ALLIGATORS

I understand there is big history, but when traveling around the south I met the nicest people.

Awesome old song and a great rendition. A really fabulous listen! Great work! Doo dah doo dah👏👏