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The House Health and Government Operations Committee voted in favor of a bill from Speaker Pro Tem Sheree Sample-Hughes (D-Lower Shore) that would remove Maryland, My Maryland as an official state symbol.
The vote, taken during a virtual meeting on Monday afternoon, was along party lines, with the committee s seven Republicans voting against the repeal.
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The nine-verse song, which was written as a poem during the Civil War by James Ryder Randall, a Baltimore native and Confederate sympathizer living in Louisiana, has enjoyed its status as a state symbol since 1939. Typically unsung verses of the song refer to Northern scum and to President Abraham Lincoln as a despot and tyrant, though any public performances of the song have fallen out of favor in the last several years.