Refugio divided over school's fight song
The Refugio School Board voted Monday night to keep its school fight song, "Dixie," by a vote of 5-2.
An item on Monday's night's meeting agenda reads "Consider discontinuing the use of the Refugio High School fight song."
School board president Andy Rocha, vice-president Kelley Walker and board members Lorraine Garcia, Ethel Garza and T. Wayne Price. Secretary Jorge Jaso and board member Eugene "Bull" Lewis were the dissenting votes.
"Dixie" has long been associated with racism and the confederacy. It was composed in 1859 as a minstrel show, a popular form of entertainment in the day in which white actors wore blackface. It has been called the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy. It also was featured in the 1915 movie "The Birth of a Nation," which is credited with rekindling the Ku Klux Klan.
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