Polygamous Towns/Counties, Presidential Results

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I got some of this information from Alcon a few days ago, and I thought some of you may find it interesting.

Colorado City, AZ: Bush 606, Badnarik 11, Kerry 1
This is one of two cities that was the subject of a disastrous 'polygamy raid' in the 1950s, and since then the government has turned a blind eye.  The other town was...

Hildale, UT: Bush 327, Other 5, Kerry 2

Another odd city is
Rocky Ridge, UT: Bush 79, Peroutka 73, Badnarik 1, Kerry 0

After Alcon showed me this result, I did a Google search on the city and found the following information:
Median resident age: 13.5 years
Median household income: $31,944 (year 2000)
Median house value: $0 (year 2000)
0.0% Foreign born

Not only polygamous, but definitely incestuous too.

Rocky Ridge and Hildale, UT are part of Washington County, UT.  Unfortunately I cannot find the link where I got this quote, but here it is anyway:  "It's come at a good time to give us a chance to be of better service to our constituents," the sheriff said. "We're the fastest growing county in Utah. We're adding 400 to 500 people a month and we don't show any signs of slowing down."

Any other blatantly polygamous county or town results? 

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That's really f**cked up, and creepy to boot. Imagine being the lone Kerry voter in an incestuous, fanatically Mormon sh**thole.

While no longer condoned by the mainstream Mormon church, it's still pretty common in Utah and parts of northern Arizona, and I imagine that some mainstream Mormons still preach polygamy despite the fact that it's usually practiced by the FLDS and other break away groups.  Mormonism is one scary cult in general.  Anyway, check out this link, it's got some pretty good info on the subject:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/lds_poly2.htm

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That's scary. I have (non-Mormon) relatives living in Utah, and they tell me the issue is a major one in local news.

What's your position on that by the way?  I oppose the government recognizing polygamy or bigamy since it encourages incest, wife-swapping, statutory rape, and other nasty sh**t.

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Yeah.  Stories about 14-year-old boys getting new wives that belonged to their father or even grandfather are common in these communities, and when there aren't enough women the men resort to screwing 10-year-olds.  I'm surprised opebo condemns religion so much, surely he'd make an exception for fundamentalist Mormonism. 

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Damn, those are blowout Bush. You can't find an area of Berkeley that has as few Bush votes as those areas have Kerry votes. That median age is crazy, and don't they have houses or something?

I'm not sure how to explain the house thing.  What bugs me most is that 0% of the town is foreign born, and with an average age of 13.5, you know that place is incest-mania.

(Interestingly, the LDS church supports abortion in cases of incest, just as a side note.)

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That median age is crazy, and don't they have houses or something?

Yeah, that's weird... Maybe they don't let outsiders in to assess property value.

Maybe they all live together...

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Hmm... I'd be interested to see what the Mormons on the forum have to say about this.. I can't exactly remember who they are - there is (or was two). I remember one is a R-Idaho....

Cowboy (D-WY) is an ex-Mormon, and from what I could tell, he hated it (he purposely called it the LSD church rather than the LDS church).

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They're living like Moroni told Joseph Smith to; they're pure. Everyone else is, quite obviously, sinning.

Did you ever hear about how one of the church presidents got in trouble about that?  It made me burst out laughing when I first read it (in a book called "The Kingdom of the Cults," which is a Christian book, but an excellent resource on Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses).  Woodrow Willdruff, the third or fourth president, conveniently had a revelation condemning polygamy in 1890, so Utah could be admitted into the Union.  The president after him got in trouble with the law because he still had several wives, and his defense was, "When I accepted President Willdruff's revelation, I did not realize I was expected to disregard all of my wives..."

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If I lived in the area, I would actually drive out to check out these places. I like to check out weird little towns. There's plenty on I-94 in North Dakota, some of which are almost creepy.

What's weird about any little North Dakota towns?  I've been to North Dakota a few times and haven't seen anything creepy.