re: No more Dixie.

I've never understood so much love for a song that was written by an Ohioan who was living in New York that pretty much played on every southern stereotype that he could think of. It's more or less the same formula that's used today to peddle bro-country. Yes, it's a pretty tune, and yes, the band here played it particularly well. I listen to Elvis doing in pretty regularly in fact. But I'm not going to get bent out of shape about the school no longer playing it.

Even back in my youth when I was quite a bit more of a southern apologist, "Bonnie Blue Flag" always seemed to me to be quite a bit more of a homegrown affair than "Dixie."