Also… I looked into the “Ole Miss searches increased last night” claim on trends.google.com and at first glance, that appears to be correct. Here is the Google trends chart over the past 24 hours. Note the spike last night.
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Pretty impressive, right? Ok, well look at that a little more in depth. Where did all of this newfound interest come?
Mississippi.
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More specifically, Oxford, MS.
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So, realistically, any “bounce” was largely on the backs of those already faithful to the Confederacy.
Now, let’s zoom out a little bit and look at the last week of activity on the search term “Ole Miss” and you can see how this spike compares against a college football Saturday.
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Not even on the same planet.
This isn’t the coup for Ole Miss some are pretending and, even if it was, it’s not the black eye for Starkville some idiots are claiming.