Go Utah! Only a fraction of you are crazy! It is initially surprising that conservative, lily-white Utah is less nuts than, say, Virginia. But when you think about it for a minute, it makes sense.

Utah is pretty homogeneous and well-educated, even though they believe in the magic mushroom temple underpants stone tablet stuff, but also it has hardly any black people. It is harder for conspiracies based on racial resentments to build steam when, you know, there aren't any minorities around to resent.

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