The ones I know [well I mean that haven't become Berkelified yet anyway] are mostly Rubio people.
We Mormons like immigrants or immigrant backgrounds [what else did you expect from a church which sends most of it's young adults across the world?], we love the respectfully authoritative, educated sounding, and we love the calm and polite...and Rubio and Carson fill out some of these voids.
And the Utahn branch seem to have a special hate against the Clintons, even considering the anti-D bias.
But that hate for the Clintons has competition when stacked with Trump's bragging, anti-immigration, appeals to ignorance,...and yeah the many divorces and casinos certainly do not help.
I reckon the only thing keep Trump at even those numbers is the R. Switch that to a D or I...and even Hilldawg would be beating him.
huh
i never thought about this but mormon missionary tradition has got to play a role in driving the animosity against trump. it's hard to embrace "jingoism" or nativist rhetoric when you speak another language and have formed life-long connections with people from thailand or brazil or kenya.
my other hot take is the more traditional the republican constituency, the less likely it is to back trump. mormon republicanism isn't about ideology so much as it's a default identification that comes with being born to "lds" parents. as a result, there are many mormon moderates who always vote straight-r or close to it. because trump is so offensive to these mormons, they have a higher propensity to vote for hillary, especially if it becomes a community-wide trend.
other communities where this is the case:
-cubans
-vietnamese
-the dakotas, maybe extending south to nebraska or kansas and eastern iowa.
-parts of indiana
