Word: dixieland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appeal can sell with all the pizazz of a Vanna White. Developed by Go*USA, a tourism-industry trade group, the commercial features none other than President George Bush promoting the U.S. as a vacation paradise. Over images of rolling lawns and sandy beaches, Bush touts Hawaii, homegrown Dixieland jazz and, in an endearingly shameless display of personal preference, the wonders of Maine and Texas...
...quick perusal of the section names gives a hint of the broad scope offered here: Rock, Zydeco, New Orleans Rockin' Rhythm and Blues, Country, Cajun, Tex-Max, American Indian, Blues Women, Dixieland, Big Band, Swamp, Comedy and Boogie all get separate bins. This is surely one of the few places in the world where you can find an old vinyl recording of "Song of the Suffragettes" along with easy listening anthologies and used Thompson Twins...
Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin look-alikes, trailed by a freckle-faced Huck Finn, greet passengers as they come up the gangplank of the Mississippi River's newest paddle-wheeler, Emerald Lady. A Dixieland band lays down tune after tune, while a jokester on stilts tosses colorful doubloons. Waitresses with feathers jutting from their hair sashay through wood-paneled rooms, offering cocktails. As the riverboat pulls out of Fort Madison, Iowa, and steams up and down the Mississippi on a three-hour excursion into the 19th century, it is easy to get swept up in the hoopla. So easy that...
...that bugles "Glory, glory, hallelujah" as it enters the parking area. Some are equipped with public-address systems through which the owners issue cheers, personal manifestos and invitations to join them for a drink. On the platform atop one large van, Confederate flags flying from its railing, is a Dixieland band. When a David Duke truck pulls into the lot, the men in the band intone "white power" into their mikes. David Duke, running for the U.S. Senate, has come home...
...flag stands for many things to me, and it is the symbol of good 'ole Dixieland. The South stands for fried okra, fried squash and fried catfish. The South stands for and stands up for religion: The South is the Bible Belt. The South stands for big 'ole mosquitoes. The South stands for the southern accent, including y'all, tar (can go flat), bud (e.g. the mockin'), rasslin' and tin (after nine...