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JoeAltmaier on July 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Mega-Utopia in Vermon...

They moved to Utah, once. This seems like exactly the demographic that has, historically, been willing to move to the wilderness for idealism.

clavalle on July 21, 2016 [–]

They have had less success moving en masse into populated areas.

See: The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri and the subsequent failed attempt to do the same thing in Illinois that eventually lead to their founder's murder.

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