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Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:21 pm to Toddy
Interesting read. Also read his two previous articles. So...
1896 - Elma Meek suggested Ole Miss as the name the new year book. The following year, the Ole Miss yearbook was published.
1908-1909 - A train named Ole Miss was going from Memphis to New Orleans, through the state of Mississippi.
1918 - W. C. Handy write a song called Ole Miss Blues.
And Dr. Elmore wants everyone to believe that the name Ole Miss had nothing to do the University of Mississippi's yearbook, but a train and a song?
1896 - Elma Meek suggested Ole Miss as the name the new year book. The following year, the Ole Miss yearbook was published.
1908-1909 - A train named Ole Miss was going from Memphis to New Orleans, through the state of Mississippi.
1918 - W. C. Handy write a song called Ole Miss Blues.
And Dr. Elmore wants everyone to believe that the name Ole Miss had nothing to do the University of Mississippi's yearbook, but a train and a song?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:22 pm to 19
get it hot
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:23 pm to Toddy
Yeah and colonel Reb was modeled after a black guy
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:30 pm to Slippery Slope
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Yeah and colonel Reb was modeled after a black guy
That's correct. the caricature is based off of Blind Jim Ivy.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:41 pm to Toddy
Because any popular saying just completely dies out and never survives a lengthy period of time right?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 12:56 pm to Toddy
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Toddy
very interesting article and I am surprised that you aren't on the University of Mississippi Black Bears bandwagon
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:00 pm to Toddy
Memories from my youth.
Watching 10,000 Ole Miss fans waving their Stars and Bars Rebel flags in unison in Memorial Stadium as they sing Dixie to the UM Marching Band.
Then hearing a shout as one voice "The South's gonna rise again."
Ole Miss comes from a train song?
I think not.
Watching 10,000 Ole Miss fans waving their Stars and Bars Rebel flags in unison in Memorial Stadium as they sing Dixie to the UM Marching Band.
Then hearing a shout as one voice "The South's gonna rise again."
Ole Miss comes from a train song?
I think not.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:01 pm to Toddy
Did the train go south much like your football team?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:07 pm to MeridianDog
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:07 pm to msstate7
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Will they rename after the train that ran over them sat night?
Would that make them the Buga-Bears?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:10 pm to Toddy
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:11 pm to Toddy
Ole Miss.... The Little Red Caboose that couldn't . Lulz
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:13 pm to Toddy
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Ole Miss' nickname is derived from a train of the early 1900's
Doesn't pass the smell test. A University named after a train?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:15 pm to Toddy
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It CANNOT be disputed however, where LSU got their "Tigers" nickname. It came from a Southern Civil War Regiment.
Wrong.
Officially recognized in 1838, and served in the Mexican American War before serving in the Civil War.
Here's their insignia:
Look familiar...?
Washington Artillery
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:16 pm to Darkknight
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This book states otherwise...............
They are working hard to bury that history. Almost as hard as Wayne Atcheson claiming previously unclaimed Bama National Titles in the 1980s.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:23 pm to Darkknight
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This book states otherwise...............
If you had bothered to read the other links you would see this is old wives tale that has been told with NO BASIS IN REALITY. Keep on believing that the University became synonymous the "Ole Miss" nickname in 1908 because of something that had last happened in the 1860's.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:26 pm to Toddy
We should only be so proud...straight from our official school website until they pulled it down:https://www.olemiss.edu/conf/welcometable/whyOM.html
Here's the archive: WHY OM?
"In the early decades of the twentieth century, a cadre of New South boosters
lobbied for reconciliation with the North in an effort to propel economic
advancement in the still-crippled region. It has been noted that one of the best
creations of the New South was the Old South, a suggestion that reflects those
New South boosters' attempts to mitigate their supplication of the assistance of
the North by hearkening back to a nostalgic, if illusory, "moonlight and magnolia"
time under slavery. During this time period, the university became known as
"Ole Miss," a moniker used by slaves to describe the wife of the plantation owner.
In 1948, on the heels of his own presidential initiative on race, President Harry
Truman desegregated the armed forces. In addition, he followed the recommendation
of his civil rights commission and added a civil rights plank to the Democratic
Platform for that year. In response to this addition, the entire delegation from
Mississippi and half of the delegation from Alabama walked out of the Democratic
Convention. They formed a new party, the Dixiecrats, and ran Strom Thurmond from
South Carolina as their presidential candidate. In the wake of this rebellion
against recognition of civil rights as a priority, students at the university
rallied behind their state's politicians, unfurling the Confederate battle flag put
away long before. Thus a new "tradition" began."
Where did ole miss originate?
Here's the archive: WHY OM?
"In the early decades of the twentieth century, a cadre of New South boosters
lobbied for reconciliation with the North in an effort to propel economic
advancement in the still-crippled region. It has been noted that one of the best
creations of the New South was the Old South, a suggestion that reflects those
New South boosters' attempts to mitigate their supplication of the assistance of
the North by hearkening back to a nostalgic, if illusory, "moonlight and magnolia"
time under slavery. During this time period, the university became known as
"Ole Miss," a moniker used by slaves to describe the wife of the plantation owner.
In 1948, on the heels of his own presidential initiative on race, President Harry
Truman desegregated the armed forces. In addition, he followed the recommendation
of his civil rights commission and added a civil rights plank to the Democratic
Platform for that year. In response to this addition, the entire delegation from
Mississippi and half of the delegation from Alabama walked out of the Democratic
Convention. They formed a new party, the Dixiecrats, and ran Strom Thurmond from
South Carolina as their presidential candidate. In the wake of this rebellion
against recognition of civil rights as a priority, students at the university
rallied behind their state's politicians, unfurling the Confederate battle flag put
away long before. Thus a new "tradition" began."
Where did ole miss originate?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:30 pm to WeeWee
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very interesting article and I am surprised that you aren't on the University of Mississippi Black Bears bandwagon
Why? I love Ole Miss with all my heart and soul. I hate to see it attacked, especially this ridiculous myth about our nickname.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:36 pm to Toddy
So we all agree, then? Ole Miss came from the term used by slaves to address the master's wife?
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