Mr. Smith
MormDem
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« on: November 26, 2017, 08:51:07 PM » |
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I'm gonna keep this in shorthand for now but:
1. Yeah, rural vs urban does matter, we Mormons aren't some perfect monolith that uniformly said "oooh Trump's a cheater, so we can't vote for him".
2. Idaho Mormons are generally more socially conservative, Utah Mormons more cosmopolitan and Neoconservative.
3. To hammer home points 2 and 1, FFS sake go back to 1964, there's a reason Idaho was closer than Florida that year for Goldwater, and it wasn't because of the panhandle, and a reason why Utah went for LBJ by nearly double digits. And in 1972, it was Eastern Idaho where Schmitz got his best results.
4. The Utah Mormon you're probably thinking of [and I obliged by this time for practical purposes] is a suburbanite based around the Salt Lake/Provo area, things are a bit different once you take that I-15 down to somewhere such as Lehi or St. George or wander over to Moab.
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