Banned for Playing "Dixie!"
Citadel Alumni Association bans North Carolina-based affiliate club over playing of ‘Dixie’
Citadel Alumni Association bans North Carolina-based affiliate club over playing of ‘Dixie’
(Post & Courier) - The Citadel Alumni Association recently disciplined one of its clubs in North Carolina, temporarily stripping it of its official affiliation after receiving complaints about the playing of the song “Dixie” at its local events.
The Fayetteville-Sandhills Citadel Club’s affiliation was revoked for three years. The decision came after the alumni association conducted an investigation in response to multiple complaints regarding the club’s repeated decision to play the song at alumni events, according to an April 2 letter signed by CAA President Todd Davis.
The letter was directed to William Washo, president of the Fayetteville-Sandhills Citadel Club. Attempts to reach Washo for comment were unsuccessful.
The association unanimously determined that the club’s actions constituted a “failure to promote a welcoming environment for all CAA alumni and members,” Davis wrote in the letter.
He added that a determination will be made in May 2029 as to whether the club’s affiliation will be restored. Meanwhile, the association will not recognize the club or provide financial support, data or broadcast email service.
In a statement to The Post and Courier, Davis said that while clubs affiliated with the alumni association are independent from the organization, run by…
Always playing the role of "victim". The song "Dixie" is in no way derogatory or demeaning. It belongs to ALL Southerners, black, white, or whatever. This continual erasure of our heritage by the Cultural Genocide crowd has got to stop! I remember in the 1960s the playing of Dixie was very popular. As far as "the painful reminder of slavery" goes, the South is always looked upon as having invented the institution. It didn't. It goes back thousands of years and has included ALL races as both enslaved and owning slaves. Free blacks in the South owned slaves and farms. The Citadel Alumni Association needs to extract their heads from their rectal orifices and learn the truth about our history instead of continuing to swallow the Yankee rewritten version shoved down our throats for 160 years. I'm so sick of this stupidity that I could explode.
Citadel Alumni Association
171 Moultrie Street
Charleston, SC 29409
5 May, 2026
https://www.postandcourier.com/education-lab/citadel-alumni-association-north-carolina-dixie/article_914e5c73-fd29-4176-9470-01644059ad1b.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Dear Alumni Association,
In the above linked article, I see where you recently disciplined one of your clubs in North Carolina, temporarily stripping it of its official affiliation after receiving complaints about the playing of the song “Dixie” at its local events. Only the indoctrinated and historically ignorant would have an issue with the song “Dixie”. That is part of our Southern heritage. How a Southern institution can turn its back on its own heritage is beyond me.
Have you forgotten, or did you even know, about the young boys from the Citadel who defended their state’s sovereignty against the illegal invaders sent by Lincoln? These boys, some as young as fourteen years old, ran across a muddy field, many of them losing their boots in the process, and helped capture a federal artillery battery. There were ten cadets killed in that battle, and forty-seven wounded. The field became known as the Field of Lost Shoes. These boys came to the defense of their state, and ten of them died in doing so. They deserve better than having the Alumni Association of the Citadel participate in the disparagement of their, and its, heritage.
Why are people “offended” at the playing of “Dixie”, or the sight of the Confederate battle flag? Because they have no clue about the truth of our history. Our schools and universities do not teach the truth, but continue with the 160 year old Yankee Myth which has been indoctrinated into millions of Americans. You are participating in the cultural genocide of our Southern heritage and should be ashamed, for it is an honorable and distinguished heritage, shared by blacks and whites alike.
You need to get past the “war was about slavery” myth and learn the truth. In this day of information being so readily available, nobody has an excuse to continue to wallow in the mire of historical ignorance. Enclosed you will find some history brochures that tell the true accounts of our history. Read them. Learn from them. Stop your participation in the erasure of our heritage. Honor those who fought an illegal invasion of murderers, looters, arsonists, and rapists in defense of their country, and for the right of self-determination as is laid out in the Declaration of Independence. People need to stop using “presentism” in evaluating history. You cannot use the standards of today to judge what took place 160 or more years ago. Life was different. Customs were different. Culture was different. Leave history as it was, and teach it as it was, without the Yankee rewritten mythology used since Reconstruction.
God Bless Dixie!
Jeff Paulk
Oklahoma Division Commander
Sons of Confederate Veterans