The Boomin' Winn-Dixie

“Not much time for banjo strummin’For the mills are busy hummin’Pine tree crops – citrus, cattle –And chemicals, too,Cover Dixie like the dew!Our food business, too, is zoomin’‘Cause this NEW Southland’sreally boomin’!”- advertising verse from 1955Up until the mid-20th century, it would be accurate to say that the industrial production of the Southern states lagged behind other parts of the