Most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are well aware of the perceived differences of the “Utah Mormon” and “regular” Mormons. Some say Utah Mormons are more righteous, while others say the exact opposite is true. City Weekly asked the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life for help in re-configuring some of the numbers from their recent poll on Mormons in the United States to see how different or alike the bees might be the farther away they get from the beehive.

The results of that recalculation of a survey of LDS members across the country show that LDS Utahns differ statistically from other members across the United States in only three areas: immigration, political-party identification and opinion of the Tea Party. But perhaps most striking is how little LDS respondents in the survey actually disagreed on other questions.

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