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TexasTowelie

(116,749 posts) Wed Feb 24, 2021, 03:43 PM Feb 2021

Students protest as Utah lawmakers resist changing 'Dixie'

SALT LAKE CITY -- At a university in southern Utah, the nationwide protests against racial injustice have lent new momentum to change a name that many consider offensive: Dixie State.

But the moniker's deep ties to local history are fueling a backlash at the GOP-dominated state Legislature and showing how difficult change can be.

Students from the fast-growing institution drove hours to gather at the Utah Capitol on Wednesday and urge lawmakers to revive a stalled plan to change the school's name.

“When people who don’t belong to the university are wanting their voices to overpower ours, it just doesn’t seem fair to us.” Savannah Snyder, a junior studying elementary education, said on the Capitol steps.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/students-protest-utah-lawmakers-resist-changing-dixie-76091650

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Students protest as Utah lawmakers resist changing 'Dixie' (Original Post) 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

underpants

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1. Uh yeah but you DID decide to go to a school named Dixie State

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 03:48 PM

Feb 2021

I read the history on the name but still. I mean come on.

brush

(57,471 posts)

2. I know, right. I wonder how many POC students go there?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 03:54 PM

Feb 2021

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)

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

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 03:55 PM

Feb 2021

TexasTowelie

(116,749 posts)

4. Perhaps they couldn't determine where to draw the Mormon-Dixon line

Reply to rickyhall (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 05:26 PM

Feb 2021

to separate the north from the south?

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)

5. I like that lol

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 05:39 PM

Feb 2021

Vogon_Glory

(9,569 posts)

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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