Utah
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Utah is a state in the United States that was founded by Mormons, who were driven to the southwestern desert region by intolerant Christians.
Famously, the Mormons had to pretend to give up polygamy in order to get Utah admitted to the Union.
The most notable Mormon in current events is one Mitt "Mittens" Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and recent GOP presidential hopeful. Except for a short stint whipping the Salt Lake City Olympics into shape, Mitt has never actually lived in Utah.
Utah is notorious for having the largest concentration of poor Republicans in the country (around Provo particularly) as well as being the largest per capita consumers of Jello and Prozac. Their Dutch oven cooking is pretty awesome though.
[edit] Indigenous creatures
- Mormons
- Ski bums
- Desert rats
- Jack Mormons
- Whacky fundamentalist Mormon splinter groups
- The steady stream of gamblers who clog I-80 to West Wendover every weekend
[edit] Fun factz
- Utah's state highway sign is supposed to look like a beehive, an homage to the state's nickname, The Beehive State, as well as Utah's original name, "Deseret," which supposedly means "honeybee" in the language of the Nephites, a tribe in the Book of Mormon. In reality, it just kind of looks like a ribbed condom with a hole in it, possibly an expression of the Mormon church attitude toward birth control (they're against it).
- It is also legal to own nuclear weapons in Utah, however you can't detonate them. It is a very stupid law because nukes are military grade weaponry and WMD.
