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Gemini, make a couple that looks very Mormon without including explicit symbols of Mormonism like a temple or Book of Mormon.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cModar\u201d is a fun derivation (I think) of \u201cgaydar,\u201d but where people can supposedly identify a Latter-day Saint in the wild by sight. My Modar is pretty good, and I have East Coast, never-Mo, never-Utahn friends who claim to have it. <\/span>There was even a study<\/span><\/a> that confirmed that people are better than chance at guessing who is and isn\u2019t LDS.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My own theory about this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Physiogonomy<\/b><\/p>\n Shooting from the hip I’d guess the mean “Utah pioneer Mormon” is about 60% British, 20% other Northern European, and 20% other, and ethnically this combination adds up to the “Mormon look.” As you can see from the map below, we’re basically New Englanders with some additional blond people (tropes involving Mormon families often involve blond kids, the kernel of truth there may be the Northern European ancestry a lot of Utahns have).<\/p>\n Fashion<\/b><\/p>\n I had a colleague who did some research on Mormons who pointed out that she could always tell who the Mormons were at academic conferences because they wear light blue shirts. A few other things:<\/p>\n Cultural Norms about Cheerfulness and Politeness<\/b><\/p>\n Health<\/b><\/p>\n Behavioral Odds and Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n Gemini, make a couple that looks very Mormon without including explicit symbols of Mormonism like a temple or Book of Mormon.\u00a0 \u201cModar\u201d is a fun derivation (I think) of \u201cgaydar,\u201d but where people can supposedly identify a Latter-day Saint in the wild by sight. My Modar is pretty good, and I have East Coast, never-Mo, never-Utahn friends who claim to have it. There was even a study that confirmed that people are better than chance at guessing who is and isn\u2019t LDS.\u00a0\u00a0 My own theory about this.\u00a0 Physiogonomy Shooting from the hip I’d guess the mean “Utah pioneer Mormon” is about 60% British, 20% other Northern European, and 20% other, and ethnically this combination adds up to the “Mormon look.” As you can see from the map below, we’re basically New Englanders with some additional blond people (tropes involving Mormon families often involve blond kids, the kernel of truth there may be the Northern European ancestry a lot of Utahns have). Fashion I had a colleague who did some research on Mormons who pointed out that she could always tell who the Mormons were at academic conferences because they wear light blue shirts. A few other things: No tattoos. More […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":53361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,48,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mormon-life","category-nature-and-environment","category-social-sciences-and-economics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/english-ancestry-of-the-us-by-county-1-197-867-v0-tBEG2alrR04HuSGbfVSQ6Eoz8Vw6rY-ff_PYdIVQ1J8.png.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53360"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53417,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53360\/revisions\/53417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/english-ancestry-of-the-us-by-county-1-197-867-v0-tBEG2alrR04HuSGbfVSQ6Eoz8Vw6rY-ff_PYdIVQ1J8.png-800x579.webp\")
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