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The Latter Day Saints (aka LDS or Mormons) are known IOTL for being staunchly conservative, partiotic, and lovers of the Republican Party. My understanding is that this has only been the case since the Woodruff Manifesto of 1890, where they gave up polygamy. Apparently the turn to the right was a matter of identifying with their former oppressor, the US government. Before 1890, the LDS engaged in socialistic experiments like the New Order and didn't exactly love the US government.

What POD would it take to get a modern Mormonism that's left-wing? This is not necessarily a pro-polygamy thread... though if your suggested POD includes keeping polygamy, that's OK too.

By left-wing, I mean perhaps supporting the Populists in the 1890s and the Socialists in the Debs/Thomas years, then being on the left fringe of the Democrats therefter (about as left of centre as they are right of centre OTL).
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