True or False: Las Vegas is to Salt Lake City as Dubai is to Riyadh (user search)
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  True or False: Las Vegas is to Salt Lake City as Dubai is to Riyadh (search mode)
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Question: Is Las Vegas to Salt Lake City as Dubai is to Riyadh
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Aurelius2
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« on: August 30, 2023, 10:24:55 AM »
Mormons built Vegas, but do they still run it?
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Aurelius2
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« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2023, 01:15:09 PM »
Quote from: Senator Incitatus on September 08, 2023, 11:05:00 AM
Quote from: Skill and Chance on August 30, 2023, 11:20:24 AM
Globally, here's a strong correlation between irrigation-dependent desert societies and explicitly religious communitarian governments.

Can you offer any reading on this? Geographic determinism is sort of my hobby horse.
"Hydraulic despotism" is the key term. Karl Wittfogel seems like a good place to start. I have not read deeply on this myself but it's something I'd like to investigate further eventually.
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