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What’s even nuttier is the prior president wanted to get rid of the song in 2009 because he felt the changing of the line to the south will rise again was what pushed it too far. And it still stuck around for 7 more years. Everything else was totally fine up to that point...

Ole Miss had a confederate soldier as a mascot, waved confederate flags, and the band played the Confederate anthem during games until 2016, which students changed the last lyric to “the south will rise again.” And kids still gladly took the bag to go there.