Continued chants "The South Shall Rise Again" today cost Ole Miss fans a favorite game tune, "From...

Continued chants "The South Shall Rise Again" today cost Ole Miss fans a favorite game tune, "From Dixie With Love."

Chancellor Dan Jones banned the playing of the pep song medley because fans refused to stop the chant.

I'm hate to report it, but nevertheless it seems that "From Dixie With Love" is officially no more at Ole Miss. I really do hate to see this one go, no two ways about it. Of course I'm a 'Bama homer that loves his Yea Alabama as much as the next guy, but for my money there isn't a fight song out there better than this one. Hopefully the Ole Miss fan base will shut up and they can bring it back, but until that happens unfortunately this classic is no more.

Click here for a good live version of the song.

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Ole Miss still has their fight song

This is more of an Ole Miss Rocky Top though, so it’s still pretty popular over in Oxford

Fumbles. It was always Fumbles

by DocFumbles on Nov 10, 2009 11:24 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

… still this is the one I like.

I wonder if this is basically just a threat in a sense? Show them you are serious about it, and then maybe they’ll change in a few weeks or a couple of years. Either way, I do hope to see it return in the coming years.

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." -- Milton Friedman

by outsidethesidelines on Nov 10, 2009 11:28 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Hopefully theyll just sing it anyway

Rammer Jammer style. screw hyper-hypersensitivity

he was injured. injured bad.

by troy145 on Nov 10, 2009 11:46 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

well...

while agree that Political Correctness is Bull Shit people have to realize that Southern Institutions are not going to be able to be even the least bit lenient when it comes to matters concerning racial tension

it’s not worth the bad publicity, it’s insulting to the school as a whole, and it perpetuates the damn stereotype that anyone not born in the north or the west coast is a backwards racist hick

great song, but if you can’t have it without chanting about the confederacy then you are tying the administrations hands

Terrence Cody eats your field goal!

by Wallacewade04 on Nov 11, 2009 1:33 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

What's

even more sad, is that 99.9% of those students chanting that, know absolutely dick about the Confederacy or the Civil War.

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken

by Bens4vcobra on Nov 11, 2009 9:00 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The saying.....

“The South Shall Rise Again!” was not actually in reference to the Confederacy. It was in reference to the southern people and economy being held down during Reconstruction. The problem is that Northerners view it in reference to the Confederacy. Same goes for the Confederate Battle Flag and Slavery, but that’s a rant I don’t need to get started on. I will say this though, the Civil War (or War Between the States, if you prefer) was not about slavery. It was about MONEY!

by tonythetider on Nov 11, 2009 7:40 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I've never understood the conferderate battle flag love

I like listening to Dixie, love hearing stories about the civil war, enjoy the southern debutante stuff, but I don’t get why people constantly drag out that flag.

Fumbles. It was always Fumbles

by DocFumbles on Nov 11, 2009 8:10 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I

am by no means a Civil War buff or expert. But you know as well as I do that those students aren’t chanting that in reference to Post-Civil War Reconstruction.

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken

by Bens4vcobra on Nov 11, 2009 9:02 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

My point....

is that over time the saying has become something it wasn’t meant to be. It started as a promise among Southern politicians to return to an economic and political power in the United States. Not to rise up in arms or to seceed again. We could go on for days about things that have taken different paths than were orignally intended for them. Especially certain things that got started during the Civil War era.

by tonythetider on Nov 11, 2009 9:59 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Indeed.

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken

by Bens4vcobra on Nov 11, 2009 11:36 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Well

If “What those students are referring to” is the litmus test, I’d bet that the vast majority of them are not chanting it as a way of saying “Well get our slaves back some day!”, either. In all likelihood, they’re just chanting it because it’s what they do and what they were taught to do.

Likewise with people getting bent out of shape over it.

I'm wrong all the time.

by PeteHoliday on Nov 11, 2009 12:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'll...

agree with that. For some reason people in America go out of their way not to offend someone, last time I checked the Founding Fathers did not state that you had the right to not be offended in the Bill of Rights.

by tonythetider on Nov 11, 2009 1:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

And......

To add to my point, in many ways the south has risen again and in the true meaning of the saying. We are slowly becoming the manufacturers of this country with more and more companies expanding here instead of their traditional regions.

by tonythetider on Nov 11, 2009 10:09 AM CST reply actions 0 recs