Joseph Smith plagiarized his religion, and Mormons are gullible to lies ever since.
The “blue patch of shame” is the Navajo Indian Reservation in northern Az and NM with small bits in southern Utah & Colorado. Very few Mormons live there.
“Utah Mormons are the blue patch of shame in middle America.”
What map are you looking at? Utah is almost all red. The blue you see in Northern Arizona and New Mexico is Navajo Indian country.