Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be an outsider looking in at Utah. I wonder what, say, someone who lives in Ohio must think about the Beehive State.

I think those preconceived notions were easy to predict during prior decades. The average person on the street, when asked about Utah, would probably say “big families” or “churchy” or, worst-case scenario, “lots of wives.” But I wonder if that’s changed over the last few years as Utahns and pop culture personalities adjacent to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have become ubiquitous, at least in my circles of influence and media diet.

I’m watching “Dancing With The Stars” for the first time ever, in part because my children love it, but mostly because I’m curious to see how Whitney Leavitt and Jen Affleck from “The

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