Editing Mason–Dixon line (section)

====Literature====
* In the novel ''[[The People's Choice (novel)|People's Choice]]'' by [[Jeff Greenfield]], the character of W. Dixon Mason is an African-American preacher who plays a major role in determining the next U.S. president when the elected candidate dies between the popular election and the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] formal vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-13812-6|title=Fiction Book Review: People's Choice by Jeff Greenfield, Author Putnam Publishing Group (309p) |date=September 1995 }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=June 2016}}
* ''[[Mason & Dixon]]'' (1997) is the title of a novel by American author [[Thomas Pynchon]].<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times |title= Book review – Mason & Dixon |date= 1997 }}</ref> The novel meanders widely through the lives of Mason and Dixon, traditional American history, and other themes such as [[hollow earth theory]], [[geomancy]], [[deism]], and{{spaced ndash}}perhaps{{spaced ndash}}[[alien abduction]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mason & Dixon |website=ThomasPynchon.com|url=http://www.thomaspynchon.com}}</ref>