Mormons in Utah are an ethno-religious group like the Jews. Pioneer men who came over in the 1840-50s had many wives, and so a small subset of men spread their genes throughout the population. Until the 1920s or so, the main groups of immigrants who came in via missionary conversion were from Britain and Scandinavia.If you look at Mormons currently living in Utah, you can easily see a distinct lack of ethnic and phenotype diversity.
>>17431322All of America had a lack of ethnic diversity until immigration restrictions were lifted in 1965
>>17431328*1865
>>17431328Many immigrants came in from East Asia and southern Europe in the years before the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act. The second KKK in the 1920s was especially anti-immigrant.
>>17431331*and Eastern Europe
>>17431322This theory falls apart when you read about all the Mormon Missionary work going on in East Asia though. Mormonism has basically become a way to spread American exceptionalism
>>17431328Based. Bracero program and Reagan amnesty allowing my ancestors to become citizens.
>>17431334In more recent decades there are more and more mixed kids from white former missionary dads and immigrant (usually Asian) moms
It would be ideal if that were true but Mormons are aggressive proselytes so any apparent ethnic uniqueness is by circumstance. If given the opportunity they will immediately racemix themselves to extinction, whereas Jews have many halakhic barriers specifically to prevent this.
>>17431328>All of America had a lack of ethnic diversity until immigration restrictions were lifted in 1965*1492
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>>17431322They definitely are a distinct ethnicity, but it's also obvious that they won't remain one in the long-term. The same applies to other regional peoples in America, like Southerners, Cajuns, etc.
