The Republicans do something to seriously piss off the Mormon elite during the late 19th Century.
When Utah is eventually admitted they vote for Democratic candidates in much the same way as the Solid South but stay Democratic unlike the South in the late 20th Century.
To this day they still elect reliable Democrats, but Democrats who are as reliably conservative as the OTL Utah politicians.
The question is, is it still possible for liberal Republicans to regain control of the GOP? If so, who would carry out this golden mission?Johnson and many liberal Democrats get into a big scandal in 1967 and disgrace the liberal faction of the Democrat Party. The Dixiecrats make a comeback, and the liberals move into the Republican Party, angering many conservative Republicans. After some intraparty battles, the liberals end out victorious, and the conservative Republicans jump boat to the Democrat Party, and Utah votes Democrat to this day.
While this must happen before my POD, I've always been interesting in any post-1900 PODs that could make Mormons the minority in UtahHave some event lead to a large amount of immigration (like how various Asian groups feld to the States in the mid-2oth century) and focus it to Utah, specifically Salt Lake City and the other few proper cities.
Increase Hispanic immigration as well as interstate immigration to Utah.
PODs have to be after 1966.
The question is, is it still possible for liberal Republicans to regain control of the GOP? If so, who would carry out this golden mission?
While this must happen before my POD, I've always been interesting in any post-1900 PODs that could make Mormons the minority in Utah![]()