re: Bring it back Ole Miss--Dixie With Love

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How is saying the South Will Rise Again racist?

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In a vacuum or in a different context, you're right.

Problem is that the chant is one of the mottos of the Klan. That ruins everything.

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Was not the south destroyed after the Civil War? Did it not rise again despite the best efforts of the north? I never thought that phrase had anything to do with race. It was just an expression of pride, but I guess it is now racist.

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Well that's not how it's used by, again, the Klan or the post war Dixiecrats.