The University of Mississippi has dropped a school fight song that included "Dixie" -- the unofficial theme song of the Confederacy. The university chancellor requested that the university band discontinue playing the song because many fans chanted "the South will rise again" after the song concluded.
The decision to abandon the song has angered the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, which staged a protest before Saturday's football contest between LSU and Mississippi. Even though the school band will no longer play Dixie, the team is still named the "Rebels."
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