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QuinSnydersHair said:
I'm not sure of your tone here but if that was an honest attempt at an analogy it wasn't very good. Let's just have some honesty here. If I'm a single 22-23 year old first time free agent and I'm black and I can go live in a major city that's diverse where I feel comfortable, like I fit in, and where I can get laid daily because there are a lot of good clubs/bars and hot *** Latinas, whites and blacks, I'm living there. Not SLC where the drinking laws stink and where less than 3% of the population is black and white weird *** Mormons (the outsiders' generalization) walk the streets like it's Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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While i agree that if i was famous, young, single, and rich, SLC wouldn't be on my hotlist, (hell, who am i kidding, i'm none of those things and its still not on my hotlist) it is comparable to some other small market NBA cities (Portland, Denver, San Antonio) in terms of white population % (what we lack in blacks we make up for with a relatively strong --and quickly growing-- latino population). Cultural and religious differences, weather, pollution, and lack of bars (I saw one statistic of only about 120 bars for >1M people in the metro... crazy!) are what i would deem as major detriments to outside perception.

City %White %NonWhite
Portland 76 24
Salt Lake 74 26
San Antonio 73 27
Denver 69 31
Phoenix 67 33
Milwaukee 65 35
Oklahoma City 63 37
Indianapolis 62 38

*quickfacts.census.gov
 
dalamon said:
Is this a joke?
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Dead serious. St. George is a "Footloose" town.

On 10/24/14 a local kids game place called "Fiesta Fun" threw a halloween party. They have bumper boats, go carts, an arcade, miniture golf and they added food, music and dancing.

The cops showed up and told them that since they did not have a dancing permit that if dancing happened they would be forced to shut down the event. Then 2-3 cops stayed behind to make sure no one danced. The police chief showed up a short will later and posted a sign warning against dancing.
 
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Is this a joke?
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Sadly no! TV news this morning reported that a halloween dance that has been held for three or four years in SG area was busted by the police and the dancing stopped. They had a permit but it was edited after the fact by "someone". Who lined out the permissive statements and hand wrote in that dancing was not allowed. They actually showed the documents on the news broadcast. Some of the wording used to describe "dancing" were quite weird.

https://fox13now.com/2014/10/27/cops-stop-dancing-at-halloween-party-in-st-george/

Decided to add a link to this. It is must reading if you live in this state. If this is allowed to become the norm we will get what we deserve.
 
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Grandpa Jazz said:
Sadly no! TV news this morning reported that a halloween dance that has been held for three or four years in SG area was busted by the police and the dancing stopped. They had a permit but it was edited after the fact by "someone". Who lined out the permissive statements and hand wrote in that dancing was not allowed. They actually showed the documents on the news broadcast. Some of the wording used to describe "dancing" were quite weird.

https://fox13now.com/2014/10/27/cops-stop-dancing-at-halloween-party-in-st-george/

Decided to add a link to this. It is must reading if you live in this state. If this is allowed to become the norm we will get what we deserve.
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I'm not upset at the cops. That's their job. But they fact that the city council and Mayor allowed this to be an ordinance/law in the firs tplace is absolutely insane. Pure idiocy.
 
Wow, that's crazy.


But no crazier than some things that go on in other states. Basically, my view is that yes, there will be a handful of players that won't sign with Utah because of various factors (race/religion/party scene/etc), but I've never seen anything to convince me of anything else but that the vast majority of players will sign with the team that offers them the most money.
 
Vermin said:
It has less to with being around other minorities as it does having a vibrant nightlife and a scene worth being seen in. If all of SLC white women whored out like other big city ho's of any race, no one would be saying how boring SLC is and complain about diversity.
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If you're an NBA player and you cannot get laid in a decent sized city where the LSD population has long lost its majority, you got no game.
 
I don't know, Salt Lake City is at least as exciting as Reno, maybe more exciting. Definitely more exciting than Sparks and that's saying something there.
 
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