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In reply to the discussion: What are your feelings about the song "Dixie?" [View all]Orrex
(63,462 posts)85. You didn't strike anything at all, but your response is predictable
Just a HINT of Southerner bashing, Orrex, but we're used to it. Are you assuming I'm white?
If you can refute the excerpt that I cited, then please do so. Do you deny that the song has been used in that way and for that purpose? You can take that up with Professor Neely-Chandler.
Also, I'm not assuming anything at all about you. Are you assuming that I care whether or not you're white?
Southerner DOES NOT EQUAL Racist.
Find one post by me in the entire history of the internet in which I have claimed that Southerner equals racist. I have never once made that claim because it is not true.
Pointing out that a blackface minstrel ditty is sung as a means of expressing white privilege and supremacy is not the same as claiming that "Southerner equals racist." You are making a baseless accusation that merits no further response.
Interesting that you imagine yourself to have struck a nerve, when your first response was to declare your Louisiana lineage as if it were in any way relevant to the meaning or history of the song. Sounds like I struck a nerve.
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sorry your own thin skinned sensiblities were offended. now. thread/trashed. n/t
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2015
#28
I could ask, but I imagine that they contract with some 3rd-party company for their hold music
Orrex
Jan 2015
#97
When it's used to glorify confederates, antebellum times, racism, etc., I don't like it.
Hoyt
Jan 2015
#7
tried to find a version w/out the triology. but, yes This Thread was not complete w/out some Elvis.
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2015
#30
Elvis had the grace to follow it with the "Battle Hymn of The Republic"
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2015
#34
Yes, I like the melody, too, whether it's the slow Elvis version or more of a march.
amandabeech
Jan 2015
#100
President Lincoln liked it so much, he claimed it for the Union almost 150 years ago. . .
Journeyman
Jan 2015
#31
Aha! I was wondering that myself. I thought it might come from the "Mason-Dixon line"
calimary
Jan 2015
#46
Believe it or not this song has lived in many lives, black and white alike, having spent time in the
Thinkingabout
Jan 2015
#64
How is Louisiana RELEVANT to a song titled "DIXIE", you ask? Are you fucking shitting me?
Pooka Fey
Jan 2015
#90