11:01
Franssen
I have spent time in every major metro/region in America, with an observant eye, and can unreservedly say that the most confident population group is the Mormons in Utah. This is because the future belongs to those who show up and showing up means having children.
A common sight in the Salt Lake Valley is baseball and soccer fields full of, mostly sandy haired, kids and in the winter, lots and lots of families out sledding. The small business culture continues to do well, despite some funny business w/ COVlD, and there's a huge fitness culture - especially with moms, given the mountains right nearby.
In summer you see bounce castles everywhere. You have niche businesses like secondhand sports equipment shops. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Provo, Ogden, SLC, Logan, and even Vernal feel like the 1990's, in that everything is just HUMMING.
This is under attack. Some approaches:
-Dem transplants living in Sugarhouse
-the NBA franchise (now owned by Woke Inc.)
-tech transplants from Bay Area
-Hispanic migration into West SLC
-the Church's internationalism streak
-the Mormon tendency to be agreeable to the point of self-erasure
But there's no denying that surrounding states (Idaho, Wyoming especially) are being "terraformed" Mormon. For whatever issues LDS face, they can play their powerful fertility card. Same goes for Orthodox Jews, though I hear they're facing problems, too.
I have high praise for LDS in this regard. This is probably the 10th time I've posted something like this on Telegram.
Anyone who's serious about America's demographic winter should spend some time in the Salt Lake Valley and get a feel. If they weren't such separatists, I'd have even higher praise. But can you fault them so much, given the crypt that America is becoming?