Dixie is an

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in Caddo Parish,

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, United States. It is part of the Shreveport–Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The late Ansel M. Stroud, Jr., the adjutant general of the

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from 1980 to 1997, was reared in Dixie. His father owned one of two general stores in the town sometime during the 1940s-1960s. Dixie was founded sometime in the 1890s by the Dickson family, who built a large antebellum style home in the center of town.

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Unincorporated communities in Caddo Parish, Louisiana Unincorporated communities in Louisiana Unincorporated communities in Shreveport – Bossier City metropolitan area {{Louisiana-geo-stub