Ole Miss WANTS us to be confused with them
Every time one of their ******* students or alums say or do something stupid (rather common occurrence), om honks come on here and proclaim that we shouldn't laugh at and mock them, because the country thinks we're ALL like that....and that's how om likes it.
If you look back at history,
OLE MISS IS THE FLAGSHIP OF JIM CROW. After the Civil war, there were many bitter feelings against America for destroying slavery. However, many enlightened Southerners wanted to give full enfranchisement to the African-Americans and help bring them full equality under the law. However,
Ole Miss professor LQC Lamar helped bring about the end of reconstruction, and drafted the 1890 Constitution that put Mississippi blacks back into de-facto slavery. Other southern States saw what Ole Miss did, and copied them.
JQZ George was another Ole Miss alum and professor who laid the foundation for the South's Jim Crow. From a recent New York Times article:
....the biggest argument involved George Hall, named after James Zachariah George, a United States senator who historians say helped lay the foundation for Jim Crow by placing a clause in the State Constitution requiring that voters be able to read or understand it. The rule disenfranchised thousands of Mississippi blacks for decades, and spread to other Southern states.
Ole Miss alum James K. Vardaman openly advocated lynching.
It took nearly another century, and the U.S. 101st Airborne (who kicked Nazi butt, and later kicked Commie butt in Vietnam, and Haji butt in Iraq and Afghanistan) to come in and allow James Meredith to be enrolled.
Sadly, for decades many Mississippi State students, faculty, and administration were Vichy Bulldogs- acknowledged the leadership of Ole Miss as the Flagship of our State. The nadir of this was when many State students went up to Oxford (after an appeal by the Ole Miss students) to oppose Mr. Meredith enrolling at Ole Miss.
Fortunately, the State students saw the horror and heartbreak that follows from allowing those mush-mouthed, unibrowed, drooling windowlickers to be Mississippi's leaders.
That's why OUR State courageously defied the Ole Miss legislature and Highway Patrol, to let the basketball team play in the NCAA tournament. To fool the Ole Miss supporters, we sent the JV basketball players in one direction while the Varsity went another way to flee the State and go play for a National Championship (to be fair, how hard could it be to fool Ole Miss people?).
THE Mississippi State University has slowly but surely grown to be a beacon of light for the rest of the world, a place where people in the United States and the world can say, "So, not ALL Mississippians are a bunch of backwards, ignorant retards incapable of counting without taking off their shoes."
Ole Miss knows this- that's why they love it when we're confused with them. By bringing us down, it keeps Mississippi from becoming an educational and economic powerhouse.