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Sep 13, 2017
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DK-
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THat says more about you than it does about being mormon
Just kidding, but you kind of set me up for that one.
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There was no better time to be a mormon kid from So Cal than the 80's.
DK-
9/13/17 3:04pm
I think it's about the same. Even when BYU got the NC in 1984, I received a
Bob Vance
9/13/17 3:06pm
high school in the 90's in Austin area I was told BYU could never compete with
Mayor of Cougartown
9/13/17 3:12pm
Cool to be a Mormon? I don't think I have ever heard anyone utter those words
buffgato
9/13/17 3:17pm
exactly, especially in CA, in a high school where there's like 5 Mormon kids in
Kerbouchard
9/13/17 3:18pm
A lot cooler than it is now a days.
DK-
9/13/17 3:23pm
Complete revisionist history. My life was Hell as a Mormon kid during that time
insidebyu
9/13/17 6:54pm
RE: Complete revisionist history. My life was Hell as a Mormon kid during that
DK-
9/14/17 10:25am
I can vouch for this. Growing up in Orange Cty, it was cool/respected to be Mormon. The Mormons were
ocmyhome
9/13/17 7:41pm
This was my experience in Orange County as well, in the '80s and '90s.
fredgarvin
9/13/17 8:48pm
And yet it's still always better to be from NorCal.
Kerbouchard
9/13/17 3:17pm
Everyone I know from Sacramento and Fresno brags how awesome it is
DK-
9/13/17 3:25pm
Don't forget Modesto.
LifeLongLakerFan
9/13/17 7:20pm
Bakersfield, Barstow, etc. Plenty of holes down there too. Overall though NC>SC
Kerbouchard
9/13/17 8:31pm
Not sure if serious...Where exactly are the "cool" places from Nor Cal?
DK-
9/14/17 10:25am
It was pretty cool to grow up in the 80s in Utah too. I shared your
gwalker
9/13/17 3:18pm
I was a kid in socal in the 80s. I had no clue about byu (my parent's fault) and it was decidedly uncool to be Mormon
Slim
9/13/17 3:31pm
THat says more about you than it does about being mormon
DK-
9/13/17 3:33pm
Sounds about right
Slim
9/13/17 3:53pm
That's how I felt about the Bay Area with the Cougs, A's, & Niners.
P-townCoug
9/13/17 3:53pm
Growing up in NorCal, in the 80s, I felt that being LDS was respected
Run-DMT
9/13/17 5:18pm
This was my experience in So Cal. Maybe it was just our local area
DK-
9/13/17 5:26pm
So we had a similar experience. Seems different now. Rarely see non-LDS kids
Run-DMT
9/13/17 5:29pm
Maybe many of the strong lds families from CA have moved to Utah County?
Run-DMT
9/13/17 5:33pm
Does that really make them strong if they can't take California?
insidebyu
9/13/17 6:57pm
Good grief no....some of us moved to Texas. The church has been diminishing in
Kerbouchard
9/13/17 8:38pm
Also, many of those are people originally from Utah or with family there.
Kerbouchard
9/13/17 8:39pm
We need to stop living in 1984, and while we thought we were cool, few agreed
insidebyu
9/13/17 6:54pm
The So Cal kids I knew in the 80's at BYU and my mission were generally studs.
statguru
9/13/17 7:28pm
Need to know: Was Howard Jones as big in SoCal as he was on the Wasatch Front?
wiffleboy
9/13/17 11:46pm
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