"...bill that would require the U. of Mississippi to bring back Colonel Rebel as its mascot..."

[SoCalDem]

They are not even pretending to "play nice" anymore.. This is the end-result of "TeaBag Summer of 2009".. Bold, in-your-face, we-will-have-our-way bullies in full charge.

They think the bill won't pass, but to even bring it up means that the "climate" has changed and they are getting bolder than ever.

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Published: 7:51 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011

A Colonel Reb Reprisal

A state lawmaker says he's trying to protect a unique part of Southern culture with a bill that would require the University of Mississippi to bring back Colonel Rebel as its mascot.

The bill by Rep. Mark DuVall, D-Mantachie, also would require the Ole Miss band to play "Dixie" and a similar song, "From Dixie With Love," during football and basketball home games.

"To me, a colonel is a leader," DuVall said. "The same as Colonel Sanders is the leader of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Rebel is a leader of the Rebel nation."

House Universities and Colleges Committee Chairman Kelvin Buck said the bill will die because he won't send it to a subcommittee for debate.

Ole Miss has struggled for years to distance itself from Old South imagery.

[tinymontgomery]

1. A high school that I was associated with

had a rebel as a mascot, uniform and all. The band always plays dixie during any event. Same school painted their "spirit rock" that ended up looking like a kkk member. Kids were suspended for 5 days, if you fight you get suspended for 10 days. I guess it is better to be raciest then a fighter.

[Drale]

2. Dixie is not a purely southern song

It was written by a northerner, Daniel Emmett, and sung by both Union troops and Confederate troops alike.

[chimpymustgo]

3. Sorry. The song came to represent the Confederacy, slavery and southern Resistance.

[tinymontgomery]

4. Even Lincoln liked it

It does matter in what context it is played in, mascot, rock, dixie. I don't know, do the dots connect?

[provis99]

5. I hated all that rebel crap when I was at the U of Miss.

I refuse to call it Ole Miss, which is a filthy racist thing as well. They need to rename all the streets on campus, too. Most of the student there in the mid-90s when I went thought all this "Southern" culture was a comical joke. The only ones who liked it were very old alumni, and the local rednecks.