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To: Katelew who wrote (150200)	11/15/2010 7:19:24 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 542759

Exceptional factors are a small population and low population density, ethnic homogeneity and a very unusual degree of religious homogeneity. If you want to argue that the whole world would be better off it turned into Utah, go ahead. I can make all kinds of fanciful daydream arguments about transforming the universe. John Lennon thought we would be better off with no religion and no war, that's an equally valid speculation. The real world has many states with large populations and diverse ethnicities, class levels, population densities, economic bases, religious views, etc. The common mistake is to take a Utah or a Singapore and derive public policy prescriptions for the whole world based on them. Look at the logical process involved and you find out that it is both analytically very weak, and frankly just cheerleading. In fact, in a free market world, if Utah's success is so compelling, why has no other US state chosen to emulate them? Looks to me like an actual failure in marketing terms.

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