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Utah's [[Facebook]] relationship status with [[The Several States|the other 49 states]] would be "It's complicated." The state's history is heavily intertwined with that of the [[Mormonism|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]] (popularly known as Mormons). It was founded as a literal [[Cult Colony]] (in the most academic sense of the word) in 1847 by Mormons fleeing religious persecution in New York, then Ohio, then Missouri (after [[Kill'Em All|the governor issued an extermination order]]), then finally Illinois where Church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. was assassinated. His eventual successor, Brigham Young, acting on a notion Smith had entertained of [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|emigrating from the United States altogether]], led the largest faction of Mormons out into the wilderness in a modern-day Exodus. Utah was Mexican territory [[Mexican-American War|at the time]], and was known mostly for being an inhospitable desert where even the water could kill you by being four times saltier than the ocean—a place most wagon trains avoided or passed through as quickly as possible on their way to richer, more fertile lands in [[California]] and [[The Other Rainforest|Oregon]]. A place nobody wanted, and hundreds of miles from any place anyone would want. |
Utah's [[Facebook]] relationship status with [[The Several States|the other 49 states]] would be "It's complicated." The state's history is heavily intertwined with that of the [[Mormonism|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]] (popularly known as Mormons). It was founded as a literal [[Cult Colony]] (in the most academic sense of the word) in 1847 by Mormons fleeing religious persecution in New York, then Ohio, then Missouri (after [[Kill'Em All|the governor issued an extermination order]]), then finally Illinois where Church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. was assassinated. His eventual successor, Brigham Young, acting on a notion Smith had entertained of [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|emigrating from the United States altogether]], led the largest faction of Mormons out into the wilderness in a modern-day Exodus. Utah was Mexican territory [[Mexican-American War|at the time]], and was known mostly for being an inhospitable desert where even the water could kill you by being four times saltier than the ocean—a place most wagon trains avoided or passed through as quickly as possible on their way to richer, more fertile lands in [[California]] and [[The Other Rainforest|Oregon]]. A place nobody wanted, and hundreds of miles from any place anyone would want. |
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