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Rebel Black Bear is Ole Miss mascot
OXFORD, Miss. -- After seven years and plenty of bickering, "Colonel Reb's" successor was named Thursday: "Rebel Black Bear" won 62 percent of the vote in a final poll and will become the new face of the school's athletic programs.
It has been more than a decade since the University of Mississippi began stripping away its images of the Old South. Confederate battle flags -- the "Stars and Bars" -- were first to go. Next was mascot "Colonel Reb," the goateed Southern planter who cheered on the Rebels from the sidelines since 1979.
