Not so sure I can agree with that assessment. They named their first Territorial Capitol Fillmore and the County Millard in honor of the first U.S. President they felt treated them fairly.
Applications for statehood were consistently rejected even as terrirtories which were settled much later (Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, the Dakotas) were welcomed as new states.
While Wyoming terrirory's extension of the voting franchise to women was accepted, the federal government blocked the Utah legislature's bill to follow suit as a plot to beef up the number of Mormon voters.
It was six long years after the polygamy thing went away that Utah's application for statehood was finally approved, roughly 50 years after the first settlers arrived.
Fine, not the Mormans! :)