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Vogon_Glory

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6. I read that that part of Utah had a lot

Reply to rickyhall (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 09:50 PM

Feb 2021

of Anglo-American LDS converts originally from the South, which is why it was nicknamed Dixie.

To me, this is not so blatantly a white-Supremacist issue like Confederate statuary, the Confederate Battle Flag or white-washed post Civil War Southern history books like the ones that I grew up with fifty plus years ago. I intend to stay out of this dispute.

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Students protest as Utah lawmakers resist changing 'Dixie' [View all] TexasTowelie Feb 2021 OP

Uh yeah but you DID decide to go to a school named Dixie State underpants Feb 2021 #1

I know, right. I wonder how many POC students go there? brush Feb 2021 #2

Why don't they a Yankee State? I guess a lot Utah people came from The South. rickyhall Feb 2021 #3

Perhaps they couldn't determine where to draw the Mormon-Dixon line TexasTowelie Feb 2021 #4

I like that lol rickyhall Feb 2021 #5

I read that that part of Utah had a lot Vogon_Glory Feb 2021 #6