If the Democrats play their cards right this year, they could undo the monopoly the GOP has had on the Mormon vote since the 1980s.
It should be pretty obvious from their history that Mormons aren't big fans of discriminating against religious minorities. And since they live in an incredibly homogeneous region where pretty much everyone is white and Mormon, the two things that animate the GOP these days - resentment-fueled white identity politics and the Victimhood/Martyrdom Complex that Evangelical Christians have from occasionally having to encounter people who disagree with them - are absent.
There are getting to be more Mexicans. Although it is very strange how if you compare Utah to the surrounding states, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado... all seem to have larger Hispanic populations. Is there some sort of force field along the Utah border that keeps them out? Why this difference?
Remember: one of the reasons the Mormons chose Utah was that it was in Mexico. There are still very close ties between them and northern Mexico, where there is a notable Anglo Mormon population (of course, there are also many Hispanic Mexican converts all over the country, but that is another matter). I mean, this guy
whose name is Jeffrey Jones, has been a PANista senator from Chihuahua during the Fox term and a federal undersecretary of agriculture under Calderon. Talk about links
