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Utah college votes to nix Confederate-tied 'Dixie' from name

by Sophia Eppolito
| December 14, 2020 6:36 PM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A university in Utah voted Monday to drop “Dixie” from its name — an example of the nation’s reexamination of the remnants of Confederacy and slavery.

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