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Yes! I can’t find out how to vote on your poll of whether we should remain Dixie…. This is my vote.
I’m tired of the cancel culture. Dixie has been Dixie for over 150 years! I honestly think a very very very very few, have made this into the issue it is today. Folks need to chill. Canceling the name Dixie does not cure anyone who is a racist. If we really want to make a difference in this world, try embracing Dixie, it’s heritage and all that it means to us. Let’s try loving one another, instead of finding fault.
Ditto! Judy Leavitt
Keeping the name Dixie doesn’t bother me however that ugly “DIXIE” in white paint marring those beautiful red rocks is another story.
I like sunny weather having been born in a great lakes city with worse weather than southern parts of Alaska.
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1767 which roughly continues westward to our southern boarder with Arizona.
So welcome to Utah’s Dixie and that eastern counter part of mint Juleps and “Summer time and the living is easy”.
The challenge for our United States of America is to rise above the social connotations and perpetuate a democracy that truly reflects our beliefs of equality, opportunity and justice for all.
What has to go? Hate radio for one but not the nickname of a region that once tried to grow cotton.
leave Dixie alone for a 150 yrs it has been part of our culture, has nothing to do race,