RE:More about "Dixie" for those much younger than I ......Quote more relevant...
Whistling Dixie
Engage
in unrealistic, hopeful fantasizing
Engage in unrealistic, hopeful fantasizing, as in If you think you can drive there in two hours, you're whistling Dixie. This idiom alludes to the song “Dixie” and the vain hope that the Confederacy, known as Dixie, would win the Civil War.
"Those who forget the past are condemed to repeat it"
Management will bring this project to a prosperous conclusion?