Dixie no more...

[Maroon Eagle]

Dixie State in Utah will be Utah Tech...

By the way, kudos to the graphic design team for creating an outline of the state of Utah via negative space...

hello let's talk about Utah Tech's new brandinghttps://t.co/4oGcRMHRXj pic.twitter.com/w2XjvzlaII— Matt Brown (@MattBrownEP) May 16, 2022

 

[ZombieKissinger]

Can’t wait to visit the Tech National Forest**

 

[Ralph Cramden]

The night they drove ol Dixie down

 

[onewoof]

Mississippi National Rodeo

 

[Go Budaw]

Good. Should have happened years ago. Not because it’s racially offensive, but actually because it’s geographically offensive.

 

[Go Budaw]

Can’t wait to visit the Tech National Forest**

Pick up some Utah Tech cups on your way over so we can set up for beer pong***

 

[Lucky Dawg]

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[57stratdawg]

Surprised it took this long. I assume this has been in the works for years.

 

[Ralph Cramden]

Strange amount of interest in Utah Tech

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

Don't people have to hear about the place before it can become offensive? I have never heard of that place by either name.

 

[onewoof]

Same and the context of Utah and if there is anything Dixie there it must be the paper cups

 

[M R DAWGS]

Is it improper to call a yankee a yankee? Bruce are you offended? Geez Louise, people worry about the stupidest ****.

And thanks for posting this, it really made me feel righteous that the people in Utah think that the word Dixie is racist.** Holy crap, I wish our baseball team didn’t suck.

 

[Palos verdes]

Mississippi National Rodeo

Coming.

 

[Beretta.sixpack]

Just throwing this out there....

Dixie State in Utah will be Utah Tech...

By the way, kudos to the graphic design team for creating an outline of the state of Utah via negative space...

hello let's talk about Utah Tech's new brandinghttps://t.co/4oGcRMHRXj pic.twitter.com/w2XjvzlaII— Matt Brown (@MattBrownEP) May 16, 2022

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just throwing this out there

 

[Captain Ron]

FWIW, they have always called the southern part of Utah “Dixie.” If you watched the local weather for example, they would say “warmer temps down in “Dixie” etc.

 

[T-TownDawgg]

The French are ********.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Yeah. I can get the regional place name argument but the school's mascot also used to be Rebels up until 2009.

That's just odd.

Edit to note: But UNLV chose to be the Rebels because they're the southern university when compared to the University of Nevada.

 

[dorndawg]

Is it improper to call a yankee a yankee? Bruce are you offended? Geez Louise, people worry about the stupidest ****.

And thanks for posting this, it really made me feel righteous that the people in Utah think that the word Dixie is racist.** Holy crap, I wish our baseball team didn’t suck.

I agree.

 

[GloryDawg]

That area of Utah was settled by converts to the Mormon church from Mississippi, Tenn and Alabama. A few of them were former slave owners. They could not be a slave owner and join the church. They either sold or freed their slave. I would bet they sold them. They moved there and tried to raise cotton but the harsh conditions forced them to leave. They all got sick. Others did move in there and made it work. They were not the one's name it Dixie. It was nicknamed given by the rest of Utah because it was settled by southerners. This was in the 1850's. I go to church with a Lady and Husband who both graduated from Dixie. They will correct you quickly if you get the history wrong.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

I was hoping you'd reply to this thread and give some background here. Thanks.

 

[vhdawg]

Dixie State in Utah will be Utah Tech...

By the way, kudos to the graphic design team for creating an outline of the state of Utah via negative space...

hello let's talk about Utah Tech's new brandinghttps://t.co/4oGcRMHRXj pic.twitter.com/w2XjvzlaII— Matt Brown (@MattBrownEP) May 16, 2022

Dang, I would never have noticed the use of negative space there. Dad would approve.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

Good. Should have happened years ago. Not because it’s racially offensive, but actually because it’s geographically offensive.

So I had a professor at state that did cultural geography paper on the term Dixie and looked in to the areas of the word Dixie was common. Obviously the south is one of them but he found a large region in Utah/Nevada also yielded results for things being named Dixie and having rebels in their name. I'll have to see if I can find the paper but it was interesting enough to have stuff like that in Utah where you wouldn't think it would be.

 

[Digging dog]

Coming.

Jackson will kill it before the name does.

 

[Mr. Cook]

"look away....look away....look away...."