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I wasn't sure why you were being downvoted so I googled "utah population" and "utah mormon church member count".

2.2M divided by 3.2M --> 70%

LDS seems to at least be a dominating factor in that state.



Utah legislature is even more lopsided

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/01/14/latter-day-s...

> Eighty-nine of the 103 lawmakers to be seated Jan. 19 (with one current vacancy) are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That’s 86%. Utah’s population is 60% Latter-day Saint, according to research by The Salt Lake Tribune. Latter-day Saints also hold 100% of the state’s congressional seats and statewide political offices, such as governor.


The LDS church is known to inflate their membership numbers significantly. They count anyone who was ever baptized at age 8 regardless of how active they currently are.

> Independent Latter-day Saint demographer Matt Martinich has estimated that about 40 percent of Latter-day Saints in the United States are “active,” and he guesses that roughly half of Salt Lake County’s members go to church, or roughly 24 percent of the county’s population.

Apostasy among young people has grown extreme in the last couple of decades by the church's own admission.


Nothing you stated here supports the claim in your first paragraph. Weekly church attendance is not a requirement of religious affiliation.




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