A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, recently the target of vandalism and criticism that it is a symbol and celebration of racism, has been removed from the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the Associated Press reports.

If you needed to run yonder to Bessemer for that easement to cross Scuzz McWhorter’s field so’s you can dig up all the lead shot what gramma’s blasted out there from the kitchen porch over all these years, let it wait till Tuesday, son: Alabama done went down to the beach in honor of the Confederacy!