Mason and Dixon line
- a variation of Mason-Dixon line.
Example Sentences
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In addition, the laxer laws as to child labor, which is a large factor in the low-grade spinning industry especially, are more lax South than North of the Mason and Dixon line.
From Time Magazine Archive
The union church would have 2,600,000 communicants and as many more adherents, principally north of the Mason and Dixon line.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result was the famous Mason and Dixon line, which later took on symbolic importance as the dividing line between the slave and free states.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
His range of vision was not bounded by the Mason and Dixon line.
From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron
The men who had thought that nothing good could come except from south of the Mason and Dixon line had fought side by side with woodsmen from Maine.
From The Story of The American Legion by Wheat, George Seay
