Not necessarily..
Utah will do whatever the Morg thinks will be beneficial to the Morg..
they would have gone for carter in 1980 but carter was “persecuting” them to stop being racist and allow black men to join and be priesthood holders like the white males...
so in 1978 they let the black males join and to punish carter they had the Mormon peasants all vote for the much hated Ronald Reagan...
they must have been in a quandary that year on who they hated the most...
The state is only worth what, 5 EVs? Not worth trying to appease people that crazy.
Utah will do whatever the Morg thinks will be beneficial to the Morg..
they would have gone for carter in 1980 but carter was “persecuting” them to stop being racist and allow black men to join and be priesthood holders like the white males...
so in 1978 they let the black males join and to punish carter they had the Mormon peasants all vote for the much hated Ronald Reagan...
they must have been in a quandary that year on who they hated the most...
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Interesting history lesson...Had not heard this before :)