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HN is very US-centric, owing to the location of Silly Valley and big tech. Utah, LDS central, is right on the other side of Nevada from California, and Califor
by sneak 2y ago
HN is very US-centric, owing to the location of Silly Valley and big tech.
Utah, LDS central, is right on the other side of Nevada from California, and California and the Bay Area is the nearest interesting/fun place for those fleeing SLC.
It makes sense.
- lupusreal 2y agoThere are about as many Muslims as Mormons living in California and San Francisco. Both are about 1% of each. That makes them about as rare as Eastern Orthodox, who I rarely hear anything about, half as common as Hindus, ten times less common than Evangelical Protestants in San Francisco... I think it's fair to say that HN has a minor obsession with Mormons that cannot be explained merely by their prevalence in Silicon Valley. (For what it's worth, I am an atheist and have no Mormons in my family.)
- playingalong 2y agoIn absolute numbers they might be the same. Not being American myself, my hunch is that the Mormons in CA might be well established, subsocieties with long traditions. And the Muslim people might have more of single first-generation immigrants.
- lupusreal 2y agoMy hunch is there are more of those first generation Muslim immigrants working in the CA tech industry than there are Mormons, but I don't have data on that either way.
- relaxing 2y agoMormons are organized as a political and economic force in nearby Utah, hence the interest. They also try to wield power outside the church, as when they funded CA Prop. 8 and AZ Prop. 102, nationwide political campaigns, etc. If you want to see HN address Muslim issues in the US, search “Sharia”.