From a sustainable community aspect it is fascinating.
However, look at what he's proposing. Edit: lots of people moving to a state of 600,000 people, with the first locations built up around areas with strong connections to Joseph Smith.
It probably won't work. However, should he get only 60,000 people and the majority of them Mormons, yeah, Vermont changes completely. Mormons tend to vote along church lines, they outbreed everyone else, as you said, they know how to colonize.
I don't want to cast a wet blanket over all Mormons, but you can see why this would make people unhappy. Vermont with its socialist senator could became East Utah in a generation.
“I’m the darn guy who caused all these problems,” Hall tells the seated group by way of introduction. He doesn’t let his PR handlers do any talking, and he doesn’t rein in the extent of his vision. Despite Vermont’s beauty, he points out, the state has high levels of pollution and sprawl, paired with poverty and unemployment. He recounts visiting Vermont as a boy, memories of which, along with Smith’s birthplace and memorial, drew him to this state, and says he would preserve the state’s natural grandeur. “In my crazy mind, two-thirds of Vermont would be wilderness and one-third would be the farms that are occupied, and you’d have 20 million people in Vermont,” he tells the group, slapping the table. “That’s a crazy idea. But that’s what I can lay out.”
That's about double the population density of New Jersey (currently the most densely populated state). On the other hand if you add New York City into New Jersey you have over 17 million people in an area smaller than Vermont.
However, look at what he's proposing. Edit: lots of people moving to a state of 600,000 people, with the first locations built up around areas with strong connections to Joseph Smith.
It probably won't work. However, should he get only 60,000 people and the majority of them Mormons, yeah, Vermont changes completely. Mormons tend to vote along church lines, they outbreed everyone else, as you said, they know how to colonize.
I don't want to cast a wet blanket over all Mormons, but you can see why this would make people unhappy. Vermont with its socialist senator could became East Utah in a generation.