re: Ole Miss' 2003 Co-Champ Banner Belongs in this Story

I'm an LSU fan and graduate. For you people who call Oxford a hick town are really stupid or have never been there. It's not a hick town by any means. Hell, Baton Rouge with their holier than thou Baptists and their anti liquor laws are more hick than Oxford. I've been to Oxford numerous times and it is anything but hick. To me, Oxford is the illustration of the old South. The city of Oxford is very pretty and you feel like you went back a hundred years. Oxford represents to me what the old South must have really been like. That town has many beautiful buildings and old homes. The town in Louisiana that reminds me a little of Oxford is St. Francisville and there is no way in hell that you can say that St. Francisville is not a pretty town. The Oxford natives that I met are not in anyway hicks. Even though Oxford is a relatively small city, the people who actually reside there don't act country at all. If anything, Oxford appears to me as a place where a bunch of people with money in Mississippi live. I never had the impression that Oxford was a hick city. As I previously stated Baton Rouhe is more hick than Oxford. Believe it or not, BR is actually far behind Montgomery as far as laws such as selling liquor are concerned. Other than the accents up here, I find BR to be more country than Montgomery. Being a native of New Orleans, I always found BR to be a city with small town backward ways. If the laws in BR aren't backward and hickish, then why don't you think any big name bands want to perform there? It was the antique laws of BR that crushed Catfisn Town right after it opened. People were appalled to see people walking around in public carrying a can of beer not to mention having to witness the few open concerts that were held in the middle of Catfish town. For the people to call Oxford a hick town only need to look out of their own back door. Next time a vote on liquor comes up for the populace of BR, one only needs to go to churches such as Parkview Baptist and you'll see why BR has so many antique laws.