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Originally Posted by TonyAnderson
I totally agree that mormons are not as prevalent in Boise as ANY Utah city. That should be well known when comparing almost anywhere to a Utah city. I do however feel it goes both ways as non-mormons tend to try and understate the amount of LDS population and influence in their city (except in California, where apparently they believe the LDS church has major influence with less than half of one percent of the population). Also, I noted the dots are either LDS churches or related services. Related services may include missionary headquarters, family history stuff, bishop warehouses and welfare areas, etc. Though I obviously didn't check every single dot to verify, though Google is usually pretty reliable.
Anyway, I'd love to get back on topic, but do you think I really want to talk about Utah State football? C'mon.  Even worse, I'm from Maryland and grew up a Redskin fan. |
First I've got to say that even for someone who is generally skeptical of organized religion, a lot of the comments on this forum have been pretty dick (not the one I quoted). Not every LDS person is an ecclesiastical authority who opposes gay marriage and immigration. There are ordinary folks, teachers and grocery store clerks, and some Mormons - (GASP!) - aren't even that religious! I grew up with a lot of LDS friends, and about half of them either drank, voted Democratic, smoked cigarettes, or got divorced and remarried, which are all big NOs in that church, either officially or culturally. I'm thinking, specifically, about the Seattle tirade above which lamented the presence of Mormons in a community. Treating Mormons like they have a contagious disease based on religious identity (which obviously means something different person to person) is one step away from ethnic hatred.
If someone had made the same comments about Muslims or Jewish people, I'd be all over that shit like a Caribbean hurricane.
Anyway, I think that Idaho has a pretty heavy Mormon population, but Boise might be a place where other groups dilute the pool. From what I recall of Boise after visiting as a teenager, it is definitely culturally consistent with the rest of Idaho, but also has a significant buy-organic-drive-Subaru-use-COEXIST-bumperstickers, slightly more Cosmopolitan component where a third or so of the residents don't really mesh with Mormons. These kinds of people (who are all over the place in Boulder, and as a Unitarian Universalist vegetarian I'm probably one of them) seem to gravitate to large towns or mid-sized cities, and Boise should be a magnet for the very fact that it is the only city of its type in a long distance.
Salt Lake City sort of has this folk-urban component I saw in Boise, but most other towns in Utah are too new and fast-growing to appeal to the more progressive cultural populations, who, in my experience, turn their noses up at "suburban" style living and seek out towns with "character" and roots. Mormons, on the other hand, seem to have a cultural preference for suburban-style "American Dream" living, and fit right in.
And, oh yeah, how about them Broncos?
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Bigotry is alive and well isn't it, BLM?! Do the mormons talk to you or act bigoted towards you, like you just showed towards them in that statement you just made?
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