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
The opening years of the nineteenth century found slavery intrenched over the whole territory of the United States that lay South of the Mason and Dixon line.
From The American Empire by Nearing, Scott
Eileen and I have our house divided by a Mason and Dixon line.
From Her Father's Daughter by Stratton-Porter, Gene
