After decades of debate, legislators are finally sensing strong support for repealing Maryland's state song, a Civil War-era call to arms for the Confederacy against "Northern scum" that refers to President Abraham Lincoln as a despot. "Maryland, My Maryland," set to the traditional seasonal tune of "O, Tannenbaum," was written as a poem in 1861 by James Ryder Randall and adopted as the state song in 1939. In 2017, the University of Maryland marching band announced it would no longer play "Maryland, My Maryland" before football games. Mississippi adopted a magnolia symbol as it replaced the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem. Virginia removed from its capitol the busts and a statue honoring Confederate generals and officials, including a bronze statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Source: Fox News December 30, 2020 14:59 UTC