> Culturally, Mormons are a bit like the conservative south, except remove alcohol, add a higher respect for formal education, and crank up that 'protestant wor

> Culturally, Mormons are a bit like the conservative south, except remove alcohol, add a higher respect for formal education, and crank up that 'protestant work ethic' to 11. Historically Mormons are Yankees. If you look at an ethnic map of the US Utah is one of the few places that still has a plurality of people of British descent. I think Utah is sort of a time capsule of how the northern states were like before the waves of immigration that arrived after the Civil War.