Todd in Dallas picked up you ain’t just whistling Dixie from the movie Clue, where it means “you’re not kidding” or “that’s no exaggeration.” The expression traces back to the catchy song first popularized in 1850s blackface minstrel shows, and the...
The song Old Dan Tucker has a long history in the United States, going back to the minstrel shows of the 1840s. Martha highly recommends the documentary Ethnic Notions about our country’s complicated history with racially-charged imagery in theater...
