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Glenn Arthur Pierce
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Re: “'Rebels' Yell: Protests Build Over South Burlington's Mascot Change”

Maybe "Rebels" wasn't about the Confederacy, but South Burlingtonites then adopted a Southern colonel mascot and the Confederate battle flag and made it about the Confederacy.
Plenty of colleges were "Redmen" simply because they wore red uniforms (Carthage, St. John's, RMC-Canada, UMass, Ripon). Some later adopted mascots that made the name all about Indians, and thus were complicit in the criticism aimed at them.
Glenn Arthur Pierce, author of Naming Rites: A Biographical History of North American Team Names

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Posted by Glenn Arthur Pierce on 04/20/2017 at 9:19 AM

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