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I like Oxford and visiting Ole Miss but the sheer delusion of the OP and his kind in thinking that they attend(ed) some world class institution is why people hate Ole Miss. There's just this weird, elitist vibe that is not warranted there.

They're overcompensating, hoping you won't notice how mediocre everything there is. Also, they have a lot of shame about their racial past.

I've known a few Ole Miss people, and every one of them went out of their way to talk about Oxford and Ole Miss like it was some otherworldly place full of unique treasures. It isn't. Its a good college town, but most every glowing thing you find written about it is written by Ole Miss people. There is a genuine ingrained "try way too hard to convince others that we don't suck as bad as they think" with Ole Miss people, and it comes back to their shame about a lot of things in Mississippi and about Ole Miss.

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Posted by wmr

North of Dickson, South of Herman's

Member since Mar 2009

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Posted on 7/7/14 at 12:29 am to wmr

Just last week I was reading a little story about Oxford in Departures Magazine. Sure enough, its written by Marc Smirnoff, "Ole Miss person". Google him. Interesting biography, interesting firing from the Oxford American magazine. The magazine is based at UCA in Conway, Arkansas now, because the "literary community" in Oxford and Mississippi couldn't keep it afloat.

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Posted by DCRebel