from Dixie with Love
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| alt_title = "Slow Dixie"
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| adopted = c. 1980
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"From Dixie with Love", also known as "Slow Dixie", is an American song combining elements of "Dixie" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic". It was created and predominantly performed as the fight song at the University of Mississippi. In 2009, Chancellor Dan Jones asked the university's The Pride of the South marching band to stop playing "From Dixie with Love" at university sports events.{{cite web |last=Beck |first=Christina |date=2016-08-20 |title=Ole Miss won't play 'Dixie' at football games anymore: What changed? |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2016/0820/Ole-Miss-won-t-play-Dixie-at-football-games-anymore-What-changed |accessdate=2022-03-14 |work=Christian Science Monitor}} According to some alumni and current students, it is now banned from being played in public.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJnsn_zC25o|title=Ole Miss Alumni Band Plays From Dixie With Love (we are now banned from playing in public)|publisher=YouTube |date=2013-11-13|accessdate=2020-09-02}}
History
"From Dixie with Love" was created as a mashup of "Dixie" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and started being played in the 1980s.{{cite web|author= |url=http://blog.al.com/live/2009/11/update_klan_plans_protest_befo.html |title=Update: Klan plans protest before Ole Miss game; students plan counter-rally |publisher=AL.com |date= 21 November 2009|accessdate=2019-02-14}}
Starting around 2004,{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=4643111 |title=Ole Miss chancellor asks band to stop playing song over South chant |publisher=ESPN |date=2009-11-10 |accessdate=2019-02-14}} students at Ole Miss Rebels football game began altering the final line of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", which ends "His truth is marching on."{{cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2016/0820/Ole-Miss-won-t-play-Dixie-at-football-games-anymore-What-changed |title=Ole Miss won't play Dixie at football games anymore. What changed? |work=The Christian Science Monitor |date=2016-08-20 |accessdate=2018-02-14}} Instead, they chanted "The South will rise again!", a reference to the Lost Cause pseudohistory.{{Cite book |last=Maurantonio |first=Nicole |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvwh8fjr |title=Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century |date=2019 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |pages=139|doi=10.2307/j.ctvwh8fjr |jstor=j.ctvwh8fjr |s2cid=212794107 }}{{Cite web |title=When white nationalists chant their weird slogans, what do they mean? |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/10/when-white-nationalists-chant-their-weird-slogans-what-do-they-mean |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Symbols of the Civil War at the University of Mississippi {{!}} South Writ Large |url=https://southwritlarge.com/articles/symbols-of-the-civil-war-at-the-university-of-mississippi/ |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=southwritlarge.com}}{{Cite web |last=Andrews |first=Becca |title=The Racism of "Ole Miss" Is Hiding in Plain Sight |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/racism-university-mississippi-nickname-ole-miss-confederate-history-elma-meeks/ |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=The South Rises Again {{!}} Psychology Today |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-me-in-we/201602/the-south-rises-again |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=www.psychologytoday.com |language=en-US}} In 2009, Jones announced that he would ask the band to stop playing the song unless after fans stopped the chant. When they failed to heed his warnings, Jones asked the band to stop.
This continued a trend of the University of Mississippi ceasing to use symbols of the Confederate States of America, and followed the removal of Colonel Reb as a mascot and a 1996 ban on sticks being carried into Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, which effectively prevented the waving of Confederate battle flags at games.
The ban was not received well by some students. Before one Ole Miss football game, the Ku Klux Klan protested the removal of the song outside the university's chapel; they were outnumbered by counter-protesters and stopped after ten minutes.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/21/kkk-rally-at-ole-miss-kla_n_366475.html?guccounter=1 |title=KKK Rally At Ole Miss: Klan Outnumbered By Protesters |publisher=Huffington Post |date= 18 March 2010|accessdate=2019-02-14}} Some called for Jones to be fired. His contract was not renewed in 2014, leading to speculation that the banning of "From Dixie with Love" played a part of it.{{cite news |url=https://mississippitoday.org/2016/08/19/for-ole-miss-sports-dixie-is-dead/ |title=For Ole Miss sports, 'Dixie' is dead |publisher=Mississippi Today |date=2016-08-19 |accessdate=2019-02-14}}
The band was still permitted to play "Dixie" itself until 2016, when the university banned that from being played as well.{{cite news|first=Nicole |last=Puglise |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/24/university-of-mississippi-dixie-ban-confederate-south |title=University of Mississippi bans Confederate 'anthem' Dixie |work=The Guardian |date= 24 August 2016|accessdate=2019-02-14}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu1Jo5C_tdU Ole Miss Band playing "From Dixie with Love"]
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