Ole Miss
Mississippi flagship university
Ole Miss is a nickname for the University of Mississippi, the state's flagship public university in Oxford.
The name evokes antebellum Southern culture—"ole miss" was how enslaved people addressed the plantation mistress.
The university's athletic teams compete as the Rebels: Ole Miss plays Alabama this weekend.
- OxfordHistoric English university town
- Southern cultureRegional heritage below Mason-Dixon
- blues musicAfrican American folk tradition
- Southern literatureWriting from American South
- Deep SouthSouthernmost American states
William Faulkner · tailgating · Southern Gothic · football · rivalry · Eli Manning · mascot · red and blue · Jackson · cotton plantations · Greek life · traditions · stadium · sharecropping · antebellum · cotton farming · Jim Crow laws · graduates
institutional character/Old South symbolism
Ole MissHoward University
Historic Black university, Washington
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