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Is ‘Dixie Highway’ racist? The debate is growing
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | Dec. 27, 2019 | Susannah Bryan

Posted on 12/28/2019 7:57:13 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

A movement to rename Dixie Highway — for some a painful reminder of a tragic, racist past — might be gaining steam in Broward County.

The argument is being made by one of Broward County’s youngest elected officials after she heard of a similar effort in Miami-Dade.

The name Dixie harkens back to an era that glorified slavery and white supremacy, says 22-year-old Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Sabrina Javellana. Her fellow city commissioners agree, approving a resolution in early December urging Broward commissioners to take up the cause.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: dixie; fl; racism
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To: rightwingcrazy

Yep - actually have a friend who has a Dixie cup dispenser in the bathroom - I thought they went out in the early 70s...


41 posted on 12/29/2019 4:36:08 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: shanover
Re: “Broward County is a liberal sh*hole.”

Believe it or not, Broward County actually voted 80,000 to 60,000 in favor of Barry Goldwater in 1964!

Today, Broward has a population of 2 million. Non-Hispanic whites are just 35% of the residents. Black and Hispanic residents both have 30%.

Putting that in perspective, King County (Seattle) has 2.2 million.

42 posted on 12/29/2019 4:46:10 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: ConservativeStatement

Does this mean the Hershey Highway is heterophobic?


43 posted on 12/29/2019 4:51:53 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: ConservativeStatement

LOL! I used to live for years on Dixie Highway in Broward County.


44 posted on 12/29/2019 5:01:24 AM PST by PJ-Comix (I was FIRST IN LINE at the Sunrise Trump Rally!!!)
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To: ConservativeStatement
With all the other crap that's wrong in the community, they pursue this.

Unbelievable.

45 posted on 12/29/2019 5:43:24 AM PST by OldSmaj
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To: ConservativeStatement

Shut up or we’ll cut your welfare off.


46 posted on 12/29/2019 6:08:59 AM PST by dljordan
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To: napscoordinator

Our city renamed Pierce Rd to Buck Owens Blvd. 7th Standard to Merle Haggard Hwy. Parts of Cottonwood to Martin Luther King Blvd. Guess what I still call them?


47 posted on 12/29/2019 6:15:23 AM PST by sheana
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To: ConservativeStatement

22-year old Vice-Mayor

Isn’t that special?

22 years old and he knows everything. He was barely a toddler when America was attacked on 9-11 and he thinks he knows about “Dixie”.


48 posted on 12/29/2019 6:41:50 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: Nellie Wilkerson
“Painful reminder” for the SJW millennial daughter of a Filipino immigrant.

She's looking to be butthurt, she has no ties or experience to any “civil war” hostilities or transgressions.

49 posted on 12/29/2019 6:47:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: ConservativeStatement
How about Dixie County or Dixie Hollins High. Dixie Hollins was the first Superintendent of Schools in Pinellas County, and he was promoting full school year for blacks and to have Certified teachers in Black Schools...

Please liberals, what else do you consider racist, as I really don't want to offend you! 😋 Really, I do to see them have a temper tantrum...😊

50 posted on 12/29/2019 7:28:18 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Rename Dixie Highway as the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Highway. /sarc


51 posted on 12/29/2019 8:26:00 AM PST by Salman (The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
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To: RichyTea
DEMOCRAT LIAR PARTY

Rename the Democrat Party.

The very name Democrat means Racist.
Hereby is called the Liar Party.

52 posted on 12/29/2019 9:40:43 AM PST by TheNext (Universal Skeptic)
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To: a fool in paradise

She.


53 posted on 12/29/2019 10:48:50 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (God Bless America. Thank you, Kate Smith!)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

“PS: Homeless ‘shelters’ aren’t the only answer and are not necessarily even close to the best answer, either”

Maybe it just looks this way to me because of my particular life experiences, but where you have a vet without a family, or who can’t live with their family, some sort of group living might be better. With an acceptable degree of privacy, of course.

One-size-fits-all solutions never do fit all, though, so whatever is done should be presented as options rather than mandates. Liberty.


54 posted on 12/29/2019 7:55:40 PM PST by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: zeestephen; shanover
Broward County used to be condo commando country and solidly Democrat when I lived in SoFla back in the early 90s. My mom is in Palm Beach Country which, like Broward, last voted GOP in 1988 (in Broward’s case, only by a few hundred votes).

Yes, the Caribs and the South Americans have increased their share of the population, but we will see if that means that Wasserman Schultz ever gets tossed.

55 posted on 12/29/2019 8:03:37 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: foreverfree
Journey also has a song called “Dixie Highway.” One of my favs. I think I will listen to it tomorrow.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csiiWd3ZcvA

56 posted on 01/20/2020 6:18:47 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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