This is really in-genuine. I say as an ex-mormon progressive democrat. Dems ARE a minority, and I have gotten flack and felt angry at Republican's at church, but I'd say it's about 70/30 in utah, but in some states (more Blue states) it shifts in the opposite direction. maybe 60/40 in Ohio (where I'm from)...but could be 50/50 or 40/60 in places like Vermont or NH which is very blue.
That said, I've had a High Priest group leader at church bash LGBT and Obama while standing inches from the pulpit/microphone and wanted to walk up and punch him in the face.
I wouldn't recommend Mormonism to anyone, CESLetter.com is a MUST read before you ever get baptized, I wish I'd read it before I wasted 20 years.
Now I'm a happy agnostic studying humanism, secular buddhism, and stoicism to find my place in the world, and see if there's something out there to fill the void.
Does the pew study take into account the million+ members who are neither democrat/republican because they live outside the USA where politics is different?
I'm sure Pew has a 100% accuracy and has never been wrong, and didn't just hit mormon strongholds.
There's been a huge mormon exodus (out of the church) -- generally progressives because of the November policy a few years back, and a lot of other things that have come to light, so I think some of the study could definitely be off, and out-dated.
Quitmormon.com a site that makes it easy to leave the church started about 2 years ago, and has processed 20,000+ removals, most people leave by sending in a letter, some leave by simply not going anymore and just telling them to stop coming round. Membership is in a huge 'flux' currently, I can't be certain of the numbers but it's a great deal more than 20k since 2015.
I still have MANY friends in the church who are democrat, and I'm in a number of groups on fb with mormon democrats. Even in the entire state of Utah, I don't think it's 70/20 Republican to Democrat, SLC the most progressive city has a LGBT/democrat mayor, and has had a number of democrats as mayors.
TLDR; there's a lot of movement in the church, the great millenial apostasy is on-going, studies can be off, and don't calculate exmormons which aren't mormon now, but definitely are still part of the 'culture' because they STILL have family who are, it's damn near impossible to fully cut ties from the church.
These are my opinions, not technical points, but they're my observations from the inside out. Take them at face value.
I think it's more about a town of 20k becoming completely altered by the influx of 200k people who came in as a group in order to reshape the area.
Even if they were exactly my demographic (age, ethnicity, spirituality and all), the explicit intention of reshaping where I call home by these non-natives would give me pause. I think GP was trying to convey a similar feeling.
I know lots of Mormons and I like them. I just like my neighborhood the way it is. If 200,000 Mormons moved in, I wouldn’t move out, but I’d try to stop it. If 200,000 Muslims moved in, I’d definitely sell my house.
On a less sour and prejudiced note, I really liked my Mormon coworkers at a previous job. We shared a lot of values (although I am not particularly conservative) I enjoyed not being subtly pressured to drink.
If they moved in it wouldn’t bother me particularly.
