re: Dixie is dead

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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.

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I always find it interesting that damnyankees care so much about telling us what music we should listen to, how we should act, who we let into our bathrooms, and generally what the people of the South should do and think. Question: does fear of a 1850s song, "Dixie," and outrage about it cause you to feel the need for a safe space and a hug? ... in other words, shouldn't this be on the Missouri board?

Uhhhhh... you DO know that after the war the country was re-united, the Confederates were all pardoned, they were all made US citizens and entitled to veteran, and the monuments erected 50 years later were monuments to AMERICAN soldiers regardless of side during the late unpleasantness?

You ARE aware, aren't you, of numerous speech references such as: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." (Lincoln 2nd Ig. address)

You do know that "the song, was a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln; he had it played at some of his political rallies and at the announcement of General Robert E. Lee's surrender." (see Wikipedia). You are aware that "Dixie" was written by a Yankee and was explicit favorite of black minstrels?

Oh you don't know that?

Oh well, political correctness, gay and trans gender rights, etc., is more important than knowing anything about Southern history. Guess the South must undergo a second occupation and reconstruction 175 years after the war is over for the sin of not giving a shite about the North-west coast obsession with an Orwellian Brave New World.