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Are you sure it's Pittsburgh State? I don't know about the school, but the town in Kansas is spelled without the H.
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For people who are interested in where those names come from, I can shed light on numbers two and three.
The Miami and little Miami rivers run through Ohio, and the university in question is located in the Miami Valley area.
There is a Pittsburg, Kansas located in the extreme southeast corner of the state. The university there is named for the city.
Anybody know the story behind Dixie State? Now I'm curious. Not, you know, curious enough to google for it, but certainly curious enough to be spoonfed the information.
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By the way, there should be an apostrophe in the subject line.
I say this not because I'm a grammar Nazi, but because I want to see if I can make this post be the exception that proves the rule (with regard to Davidson's Law).
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: According to wikipedia, the Mormons called Southern Utah Dixie because they could grow cotton there.
That is correct.
Anybody who has lived in Utah County (A very northern region that includes Provo, Orem, Lindon, Pleasant Grove, American Fork, and many other places, you will find folks there are as red as they come.
When you get to SLC though, you abruptly run into the blue element. Classic Urban/Rural politics at work.
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Brother Brigham's name for the enterprise was originally "the Dixie wine and cotten Mission". It used to be a pretty little place. Now, you can smell the California real estate equity money before you even see the valley.
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My mention of the red part of the state had nothing to do with politics. The dirt there is red - the mountains are red. The mud is red, and what little vegetation that grows there is overwhelmed by the vivid earth colors. The whole countryside comes from the warm end of the spectrum.
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The rivers and streams are red. When the wind blows, the snow in the hills is red.
The blades of grass there do grow a half a mile in distance. It keeps the crickets on the go to gather their subsistance. ("St. George and the drag on")
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: My mention of the red part of the state had nothing to do with politics. The dirt there is red - the mountains are red. The mud is red, and what little vegetation that grows there is overwhelmed by the vivid earth colors. The whole countryside comes from the warm end of the spectrum.
oh! Thanks for clarifying, I can completely agree with you there. I think Zion's National Park is as close to mars as Ill ever be.
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There is a region of Southern Utah known as "Dixie."
