[Illbay]

Again, NOTHING you're describing in the SLIGHTEST resembles the Church of which I've been a member all my life.

As for the "reaction agains the 60s and 70s at that time", well, look around. It's called "Free Republic."

[GovernmentShrinker]

There are a lot of regional and local variations in the Church culture, in spite of the efforts of the "correlation" folks. However, my impression of the Church is very much in line with that of active Church members with whom I communicate on a couple of e-mail lists, and their wards are located in a wide variety of places, including Utah, California, Minnesota, Texas, Canada, Australia, Finland, and even one member in China (I don't know that he has an actual ward there -- more likely a branch; he was active in a ward in Canada for many years before moving back to his native China).