 SALT LAKE CITY AP After years of resisting calls to change, a university in Utah is considering dropping Dixie from its name in another example of the nations reexamination of the Confederacy and slavery. Dixie State University, located about 300 miles 480 kilometers south of Salt Lake City, has faced scrutiny in the past over its name, but resisted changing. Settlers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, many of them from the South, moved to the St. George area in the 1800s. The universitys decision to revisit the issue comes amid a national outcry against racial injustice and police brutality following the death of George Floyd. The local chapter of the NAACP has been among those urging a name change. Some institutions have recently distanced themselves from the term and companies have moved to drop labeling viewed as racist, including brands from Eskimo Pie to Aunt Jemima. Country musics The Dixie Chicks changed its name to The Chicks and the owner of Dixie Brewing Company in New Orleans said its brewery and products will be renamed. Dixie State, with an enrollment of about 11,000 students, transitioned from a college to a university in 2013 and is one of the largest universities in southern Utah. University leaders, along with the Utah System of Higher Education, are in the early stages of discussing a potential name change, but the Republican-controlled state Legislature would have the final say. A final decision likely wouldnt come until legislators meet in January, said system spokesperson Trisha Dugovic. University spokesperson Jordon Sharp said administrators understand that for some people the term Dixie stirs negative connotations associated with discrimination and intolerance. But, he said, Dixie State also respects that the word has a regional meaning that... 