Wake County, North Carolina. (Redirected from Wake County, NC) Wake County is a county in the US state of North Carolina. As of July 1, 2015, the population was 1,024,198, making it North Carolina's second-most populated county.
Winn-Dixie Stores has found -- as Jefferson Davis did long ago -- that winning Dixie ain't easy. The Deep South supermarket chain operates about 550 combination food and drug stores throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi under the Winn-Dixie and Winn-Dixie Marketplace banners.
1 The word Dixie refers to privately issued currency originally from the Citizens State Bank (located in the French Quarter of New Orleans) and then other banks in Louisiana.2  These banks issued ten-dollar notes, labeled Dix, French for ten, on the reverse side.oday, it is most often associated with those parts of the Southern United States where traditions and legacies of the Confederate era and the Antebellum South live most strongly. Many businesses in the South contain Dixie in their name as an identifier, such as supermarket chain  Winn-Dixie .