Attending a university in Utah for 5 years guaranteed that I'll never join that church. For 5 years I heard them talk about "converts" and "transplants" with the same venom that most people talk about felons ("He's nothing, he's just a convert!"). If I join up, that's how they'll talk about me. Why would I want that? In the mormon church, if you're not a 5th generation Utahn, you're nothing and they'll let you know it. Maybe the CEO of the LDS church should have a good talk to the flock about ARROGANCE and being bonkers over appearing wealthy when you're not.
I found it funny that they assumed that if you've never been on a mission, you've never been anywhere. As a military veteran, I've spent more time forward-deployed than most of them have on the can.
For example, every Christmas around here you see claims that mormons don't sing Christmas songs in their church services. No amount of proof seems to satisfy the people who repeatedly make these claims. These type of person would easily believe a claim that the Ensign has article after article on Joseph Smith without any mention of God.
So when I see them (and have the time) I point out the most absurd claims, if only to get it on record that there is an opposing view. Sometimes, like here, I get an admission that the statement was false.
The other problem with your claim of sarcasm is that within the same sentence you expand upon your original point (which you just stated was a intentional false statement). Hard to tell for sure what you are intending here, unless you are intending to imply your original claim was the truth after all. Strange way of presenting your case.
As for your other observations, I suspect that they are spot on in the Utah region of the church. I've never lived in Utah, so I can't speak for sure, but I know many that did grow up there and that attitude would not surprise me. Outside of Utah (at least every place I have lived) converts are cherished, not shunned.