although a cotton mill was built and used for a few years in the town of Washington. "[C]onsistent operation of the Factory" ended in 1897. The name "Dixie" The name "Dixie" was used by residents and others in the state as a shorthand reference to the area. The former St. George Stake Academy officially became Dixie State College in 1915. About that time, "Dixie" was painted on a red rock on the hill above St. George commonly called the Sugarloaf. Previously, the hill had been painted with the year of the graduating class and a "D". The "Dixie Rock" on the hill served to mark the name. In this time period, the nation was in a wave of nostalgic revisionism (including the mythology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy) that made Dixie and the South an idealization of moonlight and magnolias "by the many attentions of northern artists to southern mythology, the North's fascination with aristocracy and lost causes, the national appeal of the agrarian myth, and the South's personification of that ideal, to say nothing of the North's persistent use of the South in the manipulation of her own racial mythology." Now dozens of institutions and businesses in the area use the name "Dixie". Devotion to the "Dixie" name Strong ties to the "Dixie" name are felt by some descendants of the pioneers. Those with long-standing ties to the area, and those who are newer, speak with deep affection of the land as giving you "red sand in your shoes" – something they feel is unique to that part of Utah. A well-known song (adapted from a popular Southern song published in 1915) sung by college students, school children, and former Mayor Daniel D. McArthur, is "Are You From Dixie?" Are you from Dixie? I said from Dixie! Where the fields of cotton beckon to me. We're glad to see ya To say 'How be ya?' And the friends we're longin' to see. If you're from Santa Clara, Washington Or St. George, fine, Anywhere below the Iron County line, Then you're from Dixie, Hurray for Dixie, 'Cause I'm from Dixie, too!" To some in the area, "Dixie" in the historical sense refers to the growing of cotton – a failing enterprise that exhausted their ancestors. Cotton was an expression of faith and solidarity; a commitment to a common cause. And after cotton, "Dixie" came to mean home. From