http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City

SLC has a population of 178K just about, with over 1,000,000 in the SLC Metropolitain area.

When I was there in 1994, Salt Lake was 87% Mormons. Given that it's 79% white, does that say something about the lack of racial diversity in the Mormon religion?

Maybe the same thing could be said about demographics within Southern Baptist churches, I dunno. I know up until 40 - 50 years ago, minorities were not welcomed in Southern Baptist churches.

I just found it interesting and wanted to see how both sides would argue this point.

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Salt Lake City is more racially diverse than the state of Utah as a whole. For example, a comparison of the racial make up of Utah versus Salt Lake City:
Utah / Salt Lake City / Ethnicity
85.3% / 79.20% / White
9.0% / 18.85% / Hispanic
0.8% / 1.89% / Black
1.3% / 1.34% / Native American
1.7% / 3.62% / Asian
0.7% / 1.89% / Pacific Islander
N/A 8.52% other
2.1% 3.54% mixed

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Blacks were not apart of the Mormon's plan until a special revelation from God sometime in the 60's

ibmagg: no bites on this one?

There are more Mormons outside the US than inside. Ever wonder why most Polynesians are Mormon? The LDS church just passed the 1 million mark in Mexico. The Church is exploding in Africa and in the far east. There are more Mormons in California then there are in SLC.

The whole all Mormons are white thing is about as true as all Aggies are inbred hicks. Wait, bad analogy.

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The Church is exploding in Africa and in the far east.

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So in other words, they give out the best food in Africa and the Far East

R.I.P. Buddy D

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Hank Hill: The whole all Mormons are white thing is about as true as all Aggies are inbred hicks. Wait, bad analogy.

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ROTFLMHO. Good thing I don't drink coffee, or I would have spewed it all over the computer screen. Thanks for the laugh Hank.

Cold Steel

LDS longhorns....can't live with them, can't pass an executive extermination order on them.....

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About 50% of Salt Lake City's current residents are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This rises to about 80% for the state's more rural municipalities, averaging about 60% for Utah as a whole.

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Same wikipedia source. I would like to see the source of statistics that said 87% in SLC are LDS. Even in 1994 this wasn't the case. Blauser, you may have a lot of good points but this isn't true about SLC. When you factor that about 50% of the members are active, that means that SLC is essentially 25% active LDS. If you spent time there, you would know the difference between SLC and somewhere like Provo/Orem.

[This message has been edited by bizag (edited 6/27/2006 11:22p).]