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I grew up with a lot of Mormons...anecdotally would say their families were more often SMB owners than not. Utah also has a pretty happening tech scene nowadays.

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I am a Mormon SMB owner, and I agree with your point, but in the interest of full disclosure, there is a darker side to this tendency as well. Utah (read Mormons) is the MLM capital of the world, with other get rich quick schemes being pretty popular as well.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/theslice/mormon-utah-valley-mu...

I had always wondered if there was a link between MLMs and Mormons. They are always overly upbeat and Christian (classic Mormon stereotypes) in their marketing, and so many of them are in Utah.

I grew up in a small Texas town with an outsized population of Mormons, and the ones I knew were either public sector or business owners.

That’s a common SMB and family farm model.

Husband runs the business, wife works for the county/town/school for the healthcare and pension.

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