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It's 70/20 in aggregate. It's your anecdotes vs. a Pew study, there's not much more to say.

• gremlinsinc 8y ago
  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.