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> The thing is, Utah has never had a truly poor population. What about when the first destitute pioneers arrived and found a desert?
by ythn 10y ago
> The thing is, Utah has never had a truly poor population.
What about when the first destitute pioneers arrived and found a desert?
- tmorton 10y agoAt the time (1847), they were not the poorest people in North America.
- duskwuff 10y agoIt's not really meaningful to describe people as "rich" or "poor" in the absence of an economy.
- tp3z4u 10y agoWhere people are involved there is no such thing as an absence of economy.
- sedachv 10y agoThe Mormon refugees did not find a desert, they found Native Americans living in the Utah Great Basin and proceeded to steal their land and natural resources: http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/mormons-and-native-americans-historical-overview http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/mormons-and-native-amer...