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Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:02 pm to Decker
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Northern aggressor.
Dont want none, dont start none
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:04 pm to inelishaitrust
The world is officially racism free. 
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:04 pm to DMagic
You aint got nothing on our poop swastikas man.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:06 pm to theGarnetWay
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Always found it interesting that the band that played Dixie would then paradoxically spell out USA during the course of a game.
So there's a really neat explanation for this. Before 2009, the band would play an arrangement that started with a down-tempo Dixie that went into "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and then finally an up-tempo blend of the two songs. The first part represented a pride in the the south, the second part, the union, and the third part both a Southern and an American identity working together.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:07 pm to inelishaitrust
Let me be the first to welcome Ole Miss to the 1970s.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:09 pm to inelishaitrust
Thank God! This will definitely make the world less racist
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:11 pm to GeorgeWest
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Welcome to the 21st century!
It's a damn shame ... it really is, but I'm not gonna get into that discussion on my first day back from the off season. It sucks though - it does.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:13 pm to scrooster
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scrooster
You're back! Have you managed to get those kids off your lawn yet?
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:13 pm to wmr
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Let me be the first to welcome Ole Miss to the 1970s.
There were a lot of schools playing Dixie in the 70s. Welcome to the 90s is a bit more accurate.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:13 pm to Glorious
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Thank God! This will definitely make the world less racist
I love this line of thinking for progressive actions
Good on you Ole Miss. It may not cause much of a ripple, but it's a good step away from a very dark past. I'm glad both South Carolina and Mississippi have taken actions to do this recently.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:14 pm to inelishaitrust
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So there's a really neat explanation for this. Before 2009, the band would play an arrangement that started with a down-tempo Dixie that went into "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and then finally an up-tempo blend of the two songs. The first part represented a pride in the the south, the second part, the union, and the third part both a Southern and an American identity working together.
I was lucky enough to see this in 2008 when I was in Oxford for the South Carolina game.
It was pretty cool.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:15 pm to CNB
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It may not cause much of a ripple, but it's a good step away from a very dark past.
Our past wasn't very dark which was the problem
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:15 pm to CNB
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Good on you Ole Miss. It may not cause much of a ripple, but it's a good step away from a very dark past
This.
Good on OM.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:16 pm to GetCocky11
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I was lucky enough to see this in 2008 when I was in Oxford for the South Carolina game.
That was the last year they played it.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:16 pm to GnashRebel
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The world is officially racism free.
Not until they make you drop the terms Ole Miss and Rebels.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:17 pm to scrooster
Welcome back, we are all glad you didn't die.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:18 pm to CNB
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I love this line of thinking for progressive actions
Sorry bro but I don't think that getting rid of a song that most people don't sweat anymore is really much of a progressive action. I can literally not think of a single black person I knew in my time there that ever mentioned a problem with the song. I think that most black people back in the day worried about lack of access to education, political power, fair legal recourse as well as worrying about being beaten, murdered, etc. This is PR. PR is important though so I will let the experts make the call and you won't see me undermining their efforts.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:18 pm to DMagic
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Our past wasn't very dark which was the problem
There isn't a southern state that can say this.
Posted on 8/19/16 at 1:19 pm to scrooster
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It's a damn shame ... it really is
That it took 'em this long?
Yeah, I agree
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