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3. 3 things

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2014, 09:10 AM

Aug 2014

I doubt if any of the protesters went to the U of Mississippi or even
college for that matter.

Confederates were fighting for 2 things; The right to keep people as
slaves and for the destruction of the United States of America.

Ole' Miss comes from "slave talk" where Ole' is a contraction of the
words owners as in, "that is the owners mansion." (just learned that)

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