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re: State pride or school pride?
Posted on 12/15/09 at 11:59 am to inelishaitrust
Posted on 12/15/09 at 11:59 am to inelishaitrust
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Ole Miss is too refined, too nice, too affluent, too cosmopolitan to be Mississippi.
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Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:00 pm to NJReb
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That attitude has done as much damage to our in-state recruiting efforts over the years as anything else I can think of......
That's not elitism.
That's shame for my home state.
Mississippi is crap, and Oxford is one of the few things it has going for it.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:01 pm to TheTideMustRoll
I pull for both of the Mississippi schools when they are not playing Alabama. I grew up an Ole Miss fan until I enrolled at UA. I am just as likely to pull for MSU as I am Ole Miss these days.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:02 pm to inelishaitrust
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That's not elitism.
No, it's ignorance.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:02 pm to inelishaitrust
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Mississippi is crap
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:03 pm to SabanIsAGod
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I know you weren't directing this towards me, but I just want to put it out there that I never said you were an Alabamian. My head shake was derived from your blanket statement. Cali is a good place to be from, and you should be proud of it.
LA as in the abbreviation for Louisiana, not Los Angles.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:03 pm to Cdawg
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No, it's ignorance.
Do you live in Mississippi, Cdawg?
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:05 pm to inelishaitrust
No I do not. I was referencing the refined, affluent, & cosmopolitan comment.
This post was edited on 12/15/09 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:07 pm to LA kid but AU fan
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LA as in the abbreviation for Louisiana, not Los Angles.
Ahhh...the capitalization of the a threw me off. Surely La. would have alleviated any confusion. I take it you're from South La.? The crowd from there seems to take great pride in saying that Northern La. is really just East Texas and South Arkansas.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:08 pm to inelishaitrust
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Mississippi is crap, and Oxford is one of the few things it has going for it.
Well, I am from the Coast and the Coast has quite a bit going for it, thank you, even after Katrina.....and whether you believe what you said or not, expressing attitudes like that is what has alienated so much of the state's population from Ole Miss and why it does not have the non-alumni fanbase that LSU, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and most other SEC schools have.....which makes it harder to fill a big stadium and lowers revenues
Acting snotty gets you nowhere at all with football prospects and their families, the vast majority of whom are from poor and/or blue-collar backgrounds
Yet ANOTHER example of what is wrong with our fan culture.....
This post was edited on 12/15/09 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:10 pm to NJReb
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Ahhh...the capitalization of the a threw me off. Surely La. would have alleviated any confusion. I take it you're from South La.? The crowd from there seems to take great pride in saying that Northern La. is really just East Texas and South Arkansas.
Nope, Shreveport. If Texas annexed Caddo Parish tomorrow I'd throw a huge party!
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:13 pm to LA kid but AU fan
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Nope, Shreveport. If Texas annexed Caddo Parish tomorrow I'd throw a huge party!
You Louisianians are a strange bunch. I can't think of another state that is so divided regionally. I can remember talking to LSU fans in BR while down for a game, and the ones from the coastal area all say that "People from N. La. can't cook etc..".
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:17 pm to NBamaAlum
Its because we are really that different, climatically, culturally, religiously, topographically, ethnically, historically, demographically.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:17 pm to NBamaAlum
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You Louisianians are a strange bunch. I can't think of another state that is so divided regionally. I can remember talking to LSU fans in BR while down for a game, and the ones from the coastal area all say that "People from N. La. can't cook etc..".
There should be a state formed out of southeast Texas, south Louisiana, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mobile County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida.
All those areas have much more in common with EACH OTHER than they do with the areas to the north of them that are in the same state.......
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:18 pm to Cdawg
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No I do not. I was referencing the refined, affluent, & cosmopolitan comment.
This is the problem. This is completely relative. Oxford is slightly above average to slightly below average when compared to the rest of the nation.
In Mississippi, Oxford is the only town in the state that has everything. Art, Culture, Music, Food, Money, and forward thinking.
When the state of Mississippi had a vote to ban Gay Marriage, 29% of voters voted against it in Lafayette county.
That led the state.
Starkville is one of the better towns in the state. I believe that speaks volumes about how awful Mississippi is.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:18 pm to NJReb
The MS gulf coast really isn't Mississippi.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:18 pm to NBamaAlum
From Georgia...graduated from Auburn and moved back to Georgia. I couldn't give two shits about the state of Alabama. So to answer the OP's question, it's school pride. Screw Alabama and their Lake Lanier water thievery! 
This post was edited on 12/15/09 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:19 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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do you pull for your team out of pride for the state they represent, or for the school?
Both. I love our state, and Arkansas is the only major sporting school in the state.
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And did you actually attend the school in question?
Currently attending.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:21 pm to NJReb
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Well, I am from the Coast and the Coast has quite a bit going for it, thank you, even after Katrina
I did say that Oxford is one of the few things that Mississippi has going for it.
There are some great towns on the coast.
Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, Pass Christian, Ocean Springs.
Natchez is ok.
Hattiesburg and Tupelo aren't terrible.
Starkville is a good town.
The suburbs of Jackson and Memphis are typical Southern Suburbs, but they're better than almost everywhere else in the state.
Posted on 12/15/09 at 12:22 pm to Cdawg
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The MS gulf coast really isn't Mississippi.
Yes, it is.
It is just different from the rest of Mississippi the same way that South Louisiana is different from Shreveport or Monroe.
Most states of any size have some regional differences and sometimes they are quite strong and Mississippi is one of those.....
And the Coast, by the way, will eventually be Mississippi's biggest population center, by far, so both Mississippi schools had better try harder to build a presence there, lest LSU end up owning the place outright.....
This post was edited on 12/15/09 at 12:29 pm
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