Dixie's Land

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'Nonsense. Have you never been in a restaurant where the orchestra played "Dixie"?' 'Of Course.' 'Well, then, on such occasions you will have noted that the man who gives a rebel yell and springs on his chair [...] is always a suit-and-cloak salesman named Rosenthal or Bechstein who was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and has never been farther South than Far Rockaway. That is the synthetic Southerner.' Wodehouse, P. G. The Small Bachelor. Chapter 1.IV

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He wanted to sit in an atmosphere of envy and congratulation, but he did not go so far as to say exactly how he proposed to do it. The concert weed's rendering of Dixie, closely followed by The Mosquitoes' Parade, had decided the matter. He would learn the banjo and play it to awed audiences when he got back to school. Wodehouse, P. G. Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere. A Division of Spoil