Mississippi ditches state song with racist history
Song is set to the campaign tune of a former state governor who pledged to preserve racial segregation
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'Go, Mississippi': State could ditch song with racist roots
Mississippi is on the verge of retiring a state song with racist roots, two years after it surrendered a Confederate-themed state flag
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