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[BigPiney]

I know, wtf?

[kccougar]

Wow it has gotten worse over the years for sure.

And LA Ute called this board an echo chamber. Yikes.

Cougarboard stopped being a place for serious discussion years ago. Just about everything posted there is in caricature.

[Indy Coug]

Cougarboard stopped being a place for serious discussion years ago. Just about everything posted there is in caricature.

Agreed. I'm trying to guess when it finally jumped the shark. I'm thinking around 2004 or 2005.

[creekster]

I know, wtf?

Agreed. My experiences in NorCal. Are very tame. 12 years in PEC over two wards and four bishops. RS president was in every one of those PECs.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I know, wtf?

SB, BP, creek... Remember brethren, this is a Utah County resident decrying the nuttiness of NorCal wards.

[RC Vikings]

Wow it has gotten worse over the years for sure.

And LA Ute called this board an echo chamber. Yikes.

It seems to have gotten younger. Normally you would think that would make it a little more liberal but they are hardcore down the line Mormons.

[FMCoug]

SB, BP, creek... Remember brethren, this is a Utah County resident decrying the nuttiness of NorCal wards.

It's all about ones frame of reference I suppose.

[Jeff Lebowski]

SB, BP, creek... Remember brethren, this is a Utah County resident decrying the nuttiness of NorCal wards.

lol. My bad on that one. I was thinking of some of the stories from Tick and SoccerMom. Let's stick with Texas.

[Pheidippides]

It seems to have gotten younger. Normally you would think that would make it a little more liberal but they are hardcore down the line Mormons.

Youth is more about zealotry and less about position.

[PaloAltoCougar]

It's all about ones frame of reference I suppose.

No doubt. That said, I think Sam Brannan had the right idea when he said Brigham Young should have kept going.

[FMCoug]

It seems to have gotten younger. Normally you would think that would make it a little more liberal but they are hardcore down the line Mormons.

I think Mormons are the opposite of the rest of the world this way. Mormonism tends to turn out idealistic uber-conservative young mullahs rather than idealistic liberals.

It all comes down to seeing things as black and white. Nuance comes later with life experience.

[Uncle Ted]

lol. My bad on that one. I was thinking of some of the stories from Tick and SoccerMom. Let's stick with Texas.

FTR, my ward is much better now that I have moved into the city. I am sure there are some fine wards in Austin as well. How about just wards North of Dallas and in and around the Houston area?

[FMCoug]

No doubt. That said, I think Sam Brannan had the right idea when he said Brigham Young should have kept going.

Having spent most of my life outside of Utah and now the last 4 years in the UC, here is my take.

Wards are MUCH more homogenous here. A big part of this is just demographics / geographical size of wards. I don't care where you are, if the ward composes just a few blocks, it's going to be that way. Outside of Utah, you get more socioeconomic diversity just because of larger wards (geographically). If the Provo River Bottoms and the hispanic sections of Provo were in the same ward ... it would be much different.

The nuttiness I have seen outside of Utah tends to come from Utah transplants who think they have been called on a mission to make their ward like Utah.

[FMCoug]

FTR, my ward is much better now that I have moved into the city. I am sure there are some fine wards in Austin as well. How about just wards North of Dallas and in and around the Houston area?

Transplanted Mormons aggregate in the newer suburbs so this makes sense to me. Our ward in Flower Mound was much more Utah-ish than the one in Rockwall. But the FM ward was maybe 80 or 90% western transplants too.

[wuapinmon]

Reject all sartorial hegemony.