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Go Utah! Only a fraction of you are crazy! It is initially surprising that conservative, lily-white Utah is less nuts than, say, Virginia. But when you think about it for a minute, it makes sense.
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Only 9 Percent of Utahns Think Barry Obama Was Secretly Born in Kenya! - Birthers - Gawker
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:04 PM EDT
Article Source: Gawker
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{"commentId":8751762,"authorDomain":"velmadinkley"}
That's an amazing statistic, considering the make-up of the state.
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- 6 votes
#1 - Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:05 PM EDT{"commentId":8752392,"authorDomain":"blll"}
Utahns are still crazy, just not about this.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8752427,"authorDomain":"rdonaldsnyder"}
Crazy, yes. Just not as racist.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8752472,"authorDomain":"velmadinkley"}
I'm thinking this must be some kind of statistical anomaly.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8753044,"authorDomain":"renee-hendricks"}
{"commentId":8753199,"authorDomain":"dustyd64"}
As funny as everyone thinks this is, I don't. Utah is a very progressive state and, I'm proud that we're not big on birthers.
Yes, Mormons can be a little weird sometimes, but that has nothing to do with Utah. Salt Lake City is only 40% Mormon, that's pretty small compared to the foothold of Catholicism in many eastern cities.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8753367,"authorDomain":"velmadinkley"}
No, I have been to Utah several times. It's a beautiful state, but it does have Orrin Hatch who gives it an odd reputation.
What is the percentage Mormon for the state as a whole?
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8753648,"authorDomain":"dustyd64"}
As far as I understand it, 60% of the state is Mormon.
I will agree with you on Orrin Hatch, I don't get how he still has an office. No worries though, Utah will be in play for Dems soon enough. Utah has an incredibly young and affluent population, which by my own account is pretty liberal.
{"commentId":8753648,"threadId":"647800","contentId":"3139937","authorDomain":"dustyd64"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":8754330,"authorDomain":"cookinmama"}
Our Governor is now the ambassador to china and i for one am very proud of him and I am not a republican or mormon.
Dustin what part of utah do you live in?
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":8754612,"authorDomain":"mad13142000"}
Utah is a very progressive state
Yeah, cause it only took them until 2009 to get liquor by the drink...
;)
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":9062773,"authorDomain":"dustyd64"}
Cookin mama, sorry for the very late response. I live in Salt Lake City.
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{"commentId":8752562,"authorDomain":"ScienceGuy"}
That's because many folks in Utah are convinced that Obama is the anti-Christ and sprang from the loins of a jackal -- nation of origin unknown.
(Non sequitur: Remember that classic line from My Cousin Vinnie -- "What's a Ute?")
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- 4 votes
#2 - Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:49 PM EDT{"commentId":8752669,"authorDomain":"velmadinkley"}
I hope when his terms are over, it's discovered that Obama is from Moscow, and is the half brother of Putin.
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- 4 votes
#3 - Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:56 PM EDT{"commentId":8754411,"authorDomain":"jsquaredrev"}
Well, if so, just send him down to Texas, where W can take a long soulful look into his eyes and proclaim him a good man."
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8752780,"authorDomain":"defex"}
"Only" 9% what? that is a massive amount of crazy people!
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- 3 votes
#4 - Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:02 PM EDT{"commentId":8752833,"authorDomain":"velmadinkley"}
Today, it's considered miniscule compared to the really strange people out there in some states.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8752873,"authorDomain":"michelleUT"}
We do have the crazies here - but don't discount us all!
I've actually seen more people from the South claiming this than I have heard in my own state. Though, I do live in a liberal county and city, so, I can't speak for what they believe in Central and Southern Utah.
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- 4 votes
#5 - Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:09 PM EDT{"commentId":8752985,"authorDomain":"velmadinkley"}
There are unenlightened people everywhere as there seem to have been forever and will probably be for whatever eternity the unenlightened will sustain.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8753890,"authorDomain":"rdonaldsnyder"}
I look at this as a confirmation that the majority of birthers tend to be racists from the old South.
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- 4 votes
#6 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:21 AM EDT{"commentId":8754344,"authorDomain":"cookinmama"}
Well we have them racists down here in S. utah, just not as vocal.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8754400,"authorDomain":"jsquaredrev"}
Mormons are not stupid. They believe in evolution and embrace science.
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- 2 votes
#7 - Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:09 AM EDT{"canLink":false,"threadId":"647800","isPrivate":false}
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