One of the few remaining ties to the Confederacy at one SEC school is coming to an end. Ole Miss announced Friday that its marching band, called “The Pride of the South,” will no longer play “Dixie” ...
A University of Alabama group wants to take “Dixie” out of “Yea, Alabama,” the popular school fight song. The Delete Dixie Initiative is “a coalition of students, faculty, and friends who wish to ...
When Kenneth Bodiford decided to excise “Dixie” from the Marching Southerners’ repertoire, he wasn’t run out of town. There was no revolt, no violent protest, no administrative edict. A decade later, ...