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To: bentway who wrote (735050)8/26/2013 11:08:01 PM
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West was a mulatto, of mixed race ancestry. The song refers to her as the "yellow" rose, in keeping with the historical use of term "high yellow" as a description of light skin among people of color in the South."

Wow. I would say most people outside of TX and maybe even the South have no idea of the real meaning of the yellow rose of TX. I always thought it was a special breed of rose that was peculiar to TX.

As for term 'high yellow', its a new one for me.
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