A University of Alabama group wants to take “Dixie” out of “Yea, Alabama,” the popular school fight song. The Delete Dixie Initiative is “a coalition of students, faculty, and friends who wish to ...

UPDATE: The Hays CISD school board voted Thursday night to allow "Dixie" to be on the ballot for students when they vote for a new fight song. BUDA, Texas -- The Hays High Rebels are known for their ...

In recent years, “Dixie” has been banned by a number of institutions because of its history. NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, meant to demonstrate broad-based and unifying ...

NC State University has removed the word “Dixie” from its alma mater, replacing it with the word “Southern” in the first line of the song. The Board of Trustees unanimously approved the change ...

DECATUR, Ala. With darkness settling over the battlefield, the familiar lyrics rose -- music and voices blending from both Union and Confederate camps. 'Mid pleasures and palaces though I may roam, Be ...

What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” were fond of a song praising goober peas (“Goodness, how ...