This was my experience in Orange County as well, in the '80s and '90s.

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Sep 13, 2017
8:48:02pm

fredgarvin All-American

This was my experience in Orange County as well, in the '80s and '90s.

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fredgarvin

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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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