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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3835989, member: 80804&quot;]The &quot;DIX&quot; refers to Ft. Dix which I believe was (is?) in NJ.</p><p>Liberia was founded by the US around the time of the Civil War primarily as a place for freed negroes, former slaves, to go &quot;back to Africa&quot;, as if <i>anywhere</i> as long as it was on the continent of Africa would be good enough - close enough to &quot;home&quot;. The virtue of a movement of the same name was a popular and &quot;safe&quot; opinion for a godly and deeply closeted racist Victorian American to hold. &quot;Charity&quot; funds were collected in many places to &quot;help&quot; the negroes &quot;return&quot; to Africa (regardless of how many generations their families had been in America). This was a popular sentiment in both South and North during reconstruction years and still pops up from place to place, usually as a scam to fleece those holding racist views, as &quot;The Back to Africa Movement&quot;.</p><p>Trivia point: Liberia is one of only three countries in the World which still use Imperial measurements rather than Metric, along with Myanmar (Burma) and the US.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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