Item Detail
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22056
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English
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Public Opinion, Culture, and Religion in Utah
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Utah in the Twentieth Century
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University Press
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227-244
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"Although Utah had a liberal tradition, that is not the image that most people have when they consider Utah politics. In this essay, Wayne K. Hinton and Stephen Roberds use 2002 Brigham Young University exit-poll data to support the opposite point of view. They show that Utahns are very conservative and Mormon. But what is a conservative? Hinton and Roberds carefully define the beliefs of several types of conservatives and liberals. Readers will find these definitions helpful in understanding not only this essay but others in the volume. In addition, the authors make excellent use of tables that compare Utahns to each other and with the rest of the nation. they then attempt to answer the question of how Utahns became so conservative and Republican by looking at Utah history in the nineteenth century and decade by decade in the twentieth. The essay concludes that Utah public opinion and culture are a mixture of Mormon and western American values." [Editor's abstract]